Tornado season is upon us
Monday marks the beginning of Tornado and Severe Weather Awareness Week in Wisconsin.
State emergency management officials are planning a statewide tornado drill on Thursday afternoon. The National Weather Service will issue mock tornado warnings around the state.
State officials say many schools and businesses traditionally run drills in conjunction with the warnings. Meanwhile, people should prepare for the real thing by putting together disaster supply kits and learning the area where they live well so they can track storms movement from weather bulletins.
Wisconsin sees an average 21 tornadoes a year. There's rain but no tornado-spawning thunderstorms in this week's forecast for southern Wisconsin.
Apr 20, 2009 at 11:19 p.m.
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DaleB; your tune would change if one hit your house or your familys home, then you would be the first to complain that there wasnt any advanced warning on the tv during your favorite show.
Apr 20, 2009 at 6:55 p.m.
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And by the way, 24/7 operations at the National Weather Service costs individual taxpayers an average of $8 per year.
Apr 20, 2009 at 6:54 p.m.
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DaleB - A TV station can't send a signal to individual areas, it sends out the same signal to every home receiving the signal, thus everyone receives the same warning. Is it just me, or is it a little callous to be more worried about missing a TV program than the possibility of a warning saving someones life even if it is 200 miles away? I doubt your entertainment is more important than someones life. The NWS started using polygon warnings instead of warning for entire counties about a year and a half ago. The polygon warnings plot the predicted path of the storm and warning of the area accordingly. TV stations disseminate warnings from the NWS, but choose their own way of displaying the warning graphics.
Apr 20, 2009 at 4:59 p.m.
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Average of 21 tornado's in Wisconsin in a year, i have a better chance getting run over by a drunk driver! How much tax money is spent on those 21? How many of those hit in the middle of an empty field? Why do i have to see 1/3 of my TV screen covered up all day by tornado watch data when there is not a storm with-in 200 miles of Janesville and not to be one? The news team breaks in during my favorite show to tell me if i live north of Madison i should seek shelter? What ever happened to the new improved warning system that was to target the actual area in the path of the storm? Its Spring people look out the window once in a while!
Apr 20, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.
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Just think of the jobs a tornado would create. Might clean up some of the trash in specific areas of town which I can't say or my comment will be removed. cause it might offend the people (you know who are)
Apr 20, 2009 at 3:53 a.m.
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I LOVE storms! I think they are amazing :) I have been waiting all winter for tornado season. Wish I lived in Tornado Alley so I could really watch them.
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No I do not like the devastation that comes with tornadoes. I wish they all could just be out in big open fields where no one gets hurt but that's not reality. I think they are one of the most amazing things that mother nature produces!
Apr 19, 2009 at 7:18 p.m.
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good now when they post a tornado watch I can go up on the roof and "Watch" lol Everyone
STAY SAFE!!
Apr 19, 2009 at 3:30 p.m.
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i wish there was!
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