Posted on Apr 20, 2023
Tornado forecasts are more accurate. Why aren't they saving more lives?
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America's tornado warning system is a patchwork of municipal sirens, cell phone alerts, and radio and TV messages. But even as forecasting for dangerous storms improves, people who live in rural areas too often miss the life-saving warnings.
Last month, a catastrophic tornado outbreak in Mississippi killed at least 26 people. A tornado rated 4 out of 5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale landed in Rolling Fork around 8 p.m. and was on the ground for an hour and 10 minutes, raging through the communities of Winona, Black Hawk and Silver City.
America's tornado warning system is a patchwork of municipal sirens, cell phone alerts, and radio and TV messages. But even as forecasting for dangerous storms improves, people who live in rural areas too often miss the life-saving warnings.
Last month, a catastrophic tornado outbreak in Mississippi killed at least 26 people. A tornado rated 4 out of 5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale landed in Rolling Fork around 8 p.m. and was on the ground for an hour and 10 minutes, raging through the communities of Winona, Black Hawk and Silver City.
Tornado forecasts are more accurate. Why aren't they saving more lives?
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel we thought would be one here least night but it missed and cut a swath of devastation as it move East
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Becasue people don't listen and thnk well it could never happen here. Well that is what happend to a little town north of me called Smithville MS. THe tornado was headed directly to a neighboring town until it hit the river, bypassed that town and went back on land fall in Smithville. They did not have time to react.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth Thankfully I haven't Heard the Sirens Yet this Year other than Tests.
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