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WTF?!?!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 11:07 am
by StormCrazyIowan
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!!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:12 pm
by isobar
Yeah Jacki, especially since you're up for snow today!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:46 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
LOL, I know, it was a moment of DUH!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:10 pm
by Rainband
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:11 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
Yeah, yeah, enough grief!!
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 11:28 pm
by MScoast
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...
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 11:33 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
LOL, see, Im not the only one, woo hooo!
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:46 am
by wx247
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
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 1:01 pm
by Rob-TheStormChaser
lol I still wanna see a snownado.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 6:20 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
LMAO, I thought there was gonna be one!
Re: WTF?!?!
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 9:47 pm
by Scott_inVA
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
Scott
WREL Radio
Lexington, VA
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 11:50 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
LMAO, it only took me a matter of seconds to snap back into reality, but that was just too funny, I had to share!
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:34 am
by JQ Public
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 11:14 am
by Rob-TheStormChaser
lol yeah...they usually do it when the weather is favorable....coincidence?