Tornado Warning from Justin & Wayne, Weather Guys for WMBB, CH 13, PC

[NoHall]

Actually, with today's technologies that are in place warning will be issued based on radar returns. If doppler shows any kind of rotation, it automatically causes a warning to be issued by NOAA's National Weather Service. Human eyes don't have to be in play. I'm guessing, though, that your saying "a tornado has been seen" encompasses that.

The upside is that there is more time given to the warnees. The flip side is that there are a lot more warnings. I hope people don't start taking it as crying wolf.
I have a friend who grew up in Tulsa. He said that sirens used to go off so much that most didn't heed them. He has a great picture of himself as a kid playing in the street with a tornado going by in the background. Crazy!

And yet that system still misses a few. They're so unpredictable!

 

[Beach Runner]

It is raining so hard - I can barely see across the street.

The same has been true here in GA multiple times in the past 12 hours. My shoes filled with water and my pants got soaked from the knees down when I left work to go to lunch and run errands.

 

[Lady D]

We are having our second round of storms right now. It stormed earlier today, got 2 inches of rain, and now it is storming again. We sure are not lacking in rain. We had 5.5 inches last week alone.

 

[InletBchDweller]

:shock: we dont need anymore rain (or hail, or tornados, or strong gusts of wind) either!

The rivers, they a risin!!! Time to bust out the pirogue!

 

[jessifunn]

flooded in Seaside yesterday & kids were swimming in amphitheater

no rain today

 

[Miss Kitty]

Storm Watcher is baaaaack!

Did you spy any sprinklers on?

 

[jessifunn]

Storm Watcher is baaaaack!

Did you spy any sprinklers on?

how do you think the seaside got flooded

 

[Lynnie]

Will you go turn mine off if there are more monsoons? It's currently only set for every other day for 10 min......a light watering! Thanks!!