WTF?!?!

StormCrazyIowan · #1 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 11:07 am

LMAO!!! TWC just got me good!! I am just drying my hair and all of the sudden I heard the alert sound go off and I looked down and it said TORNADO WARNING! I screamed " WHAT THE F***!?!?!?!?!" And then it says " This is for test purposes, there is no severe weather in your area."
OMG, I bought died!!
:lol:

isobar · #2 Postby **isobar** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:12 pm

Yeah Jacki, especially since you're up for snow today! :lol:

StormCrazyIowan · #3 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:46 pm

LOL, I know, it was a moment of DUH!

Rainband · #4 Postby **Rainband** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:10 pm

I have heard of thunder snow but tornado snow LMAO JK :wink:

Johnathan

StormCrazyIowan · #5 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:11 pm

Yeah, yeah, enough grief!!

MScoast · #6 Postby **MScoast** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 11:28 pm

A couple of weeks ago my weather radio alarm went off...I went to check it, thinking that it was a river flood warning...to my suprise it was a tornado warning!! The sun was shining and there was no bad weather anywhere around me...I then looked at the NWS site and half of Mississippi and all of Alabama were under tornado warnings!! LOL What a huge tornado that must have been! I guess it was some sort of test also...
:lol:

StormCrazyIowan · #7 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 11:33 pm

LOL, see, Im not the only one, woo hooo!

#8 Postby **wx247** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:46 am

The NWS sends out test warnings generally during your state's severe weather awareness week. They use these test warnings to make sure that the EAS is working properly before severe weather season hits.

Garrett :multi:

Rob-TheStormChaser · #9 Postby **Rob-TheStormChaser** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 1:01 pm

lol I still wanna see a snownado.

StormCrazyIowan · #10 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 6:20 pm

LMAO, I thought there was gonna be one!

Scott_inVA · #11 Postby **Scott_inVA** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 9:47 pm

StormCrazyIowan wrote:LMAO!!! TWC just got me good!! I am just drying my hair and all of the sudden I heard the alert sound go off and I looked down and it said TORNADO WARNING! I screamed " WHAT THE F***!?!?!?!?!" And then it says " This is for test purposes, there is no severe weather in your area."
OMG, I bought died!!

Yup. Early March-early April NWSFOs run Tornado Awareness Week drills. If you haven't had one and don't want to freak, Check your NWS for a PNS, it should be on most sites by now.

We are not in the TOR capital of the world but we do get them and do run the tornado test drill on our stations. We dread this b/c we get about 200 calls from people freakin' out. doesn't matter how many times we provide advance notice...they melt down.

I enjoy sitting there watching the phones light up :lol:

Scott
WREL Radio
Lexington, VA

StormCrazyIowan · #12 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 11:50 pm

LMAO, it only took me a matter of seconds to snap back into reality, but that was just too funny, I had to share!

JQ Public · #13 Postby **JQ Public** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:34 am

I thought it would just say this is a test...i've never heard of them actually posting "TORNADO WARNING (wait just kidding)" That is insanely irresponsible...like crying wolf to the whole nation ahha.

Rob-TheStormChaser · #14 Postby **Rob-TheStormChaser** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 11:14 am

lol yeah...they usually do it when the weather is favorable....coincidence?

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