{"id":2339,"date":"2011-03-09T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/tornado-warning-you-would-have-heard-this-on-noaa-weather-radio.html"},"modified":"2011-03-09T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T20:27:10","slug":"tornado-warning-you-would-have-heard-this-on-noaa-weather-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/tornado-warning-you-would-have-heard-this-on-noaa-weather-radio.html","title":{"rendered":"Tornado warning: you would have heard this on NOAA Weather Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is what NOAA Weather Radio would tell you right now.
\nI know this stuff because a friend called and told me to check on the Internet.
\nBut people who can’t afford $21 for a radio don’t have Internet connections;
\nsome don’t have telephones.
\nWhen there’s severe weather frequently telephones don’t work, either.<\/p>\n

\nThe red line is severe weather heading this way fast:<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\nWCTV reports
\n
\nTornado Watch: Severe Weather Expected Throughout Fla. Panhandle:<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nThe National Weather Service has posted severe weather watches and
\nwarnings for the Florida Panhandle.<\/p>\n

\nThe weather service issued tornado watches, severe thunderstorm and
\nflash flood watches for a large swatch of the Panhandle on Wednesday
\nmorning and early afternoon. Minor power outages and road flooding were
\nreported in the Pensacola area as the line of storms made its way through
\nwestern Panhandle.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nWALB says
\n
\nTornado warning issued<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nThe NWS says a tornado was spotted at 2:13PM about 10 miles southwest
\nof Poulan.<\/p>\n

\nThere are reports of downed trees in the Evergreen Road vicinity north
\nof Doerun.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update 11 March 2011 6AM:
\nNWS confirms Doerun tornado.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nLet’s go directly to the horse’s mouth, the
\n
\nNational Weather Service:<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\nThat broad yellow band from the Gulf through Tifton is a Tornado Watch.
\nIt clearly includes Lowndes County.<\/p>\n

\nNaturally you wouldn’t see<\/em> this on NOAA Weather Radio.
\n
\nWhat you would hear would be this:<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Tornado Watch<\/H3><\/center>
\nWATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 47
\n
\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
\n
\n247 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011<\/p>\n

FLC005-013-037-039-045-065-073-077-129-GAC017-019-027-071-075-131-
\n155-173-185-275-277-092200-
\n\/O.CON.KTAE.TO.A.0047.000000T0000Z-110309T2200Z\/<\/p>\n

TORNADO WATCH 47 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 5 PM EST \/4 PM CST\/ THIS
\nAFTERNOON FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS<\/p>\n

IN FLORIDA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES<\/p>\n

IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA<\/p>\n

BAY CALHOUN FRANKLIN
\nGADSDEN GULF JEFFERSON
\nLEON LIBERTY WAKULLA<\/p>\n

IN GEORGIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 11 COUNTIES
\n


\nIN SOUTH GEORGIA<\/p>\n

BEN HILL BERRIEN BROOKS
\nCOLQUITT COOK IRWIN
\nLANIER LOWNDES THOMAS
\nTIFT
\nGRADY<\/p>\n

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF… ADEL… APALACHICOLA… BLOUNTSTOWN…
\nCAIRO… CALLAWAY… CARRABELLE… CHATTAHOOCHEE… FITZGERALD…
\nLAKELAND… LYNN HAVEN… LYNN HAVEN… MONTICELLO… MOULTRIE…
\nNASHVILLE… OCILLA… PANAMA CITY… PORT ST. JOE… QUINCY…
\nQUITMAN… SOPCHOPPY… SPARKS… SPRING HILL… ST. MARKS…
\nSWEETWATER… TALLAHASSEE… THOMASVILLE… TIFTON…
\nUPPER GRAND LAGOON… VALDOSTA… WEWAHITCHKA AND WHITE CITY.<\/p>\n

$$\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pithy and to the point.
\nEspecially when the sky is green and you have no working TV or Internet connection.<\/p>\n

\nLowndes County has a telephone emergency weather warning system.
\nBut my telephone hasn’t rung on this one.
\nAnd I’m sitting on a hill that was cleared by a tornado about
\na decade ago.
\nPlus, once again, during a big storm often the telephone is out.<\/p>\n

\nUpdate 9 Mar 2011 3:43 PM: Ashley Tye with Lowndes County Emergency Management says he’s aware of these reports, but they make calls on tornado warnings or similar NWS reports, not on watches.<\/p>\n

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This is what NOAA Weather Radio would tell you right now. I know this stuff because a friend called and told me to check on the Internet. But people who can’t afford $21 for a radio don’t have Internet connections; some don’t have telephones. When there’s severe weather frequently telephones don’t work, either. The red […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2,2919,1577,204,177,89],"tags":[8701,7,1098,882,1721,8752,8748,8735],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-government","category-noaa-weather-radios","category-radio-2","category-walb","category-wctv","category-weather","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-noaa","tag-radio","tag-tornado","tag-walb","tag-wctv","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}