It is very rare that the sirens are blown for the duration of a warning. There have been two warning statements for your area, and if they occurred close enough, one ring should be sufficient. When IC got hit a few years back, they blew the horn twice, for the warnings were about 15 minutes apart. In this case tonight, they were pretty close.
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It is very rare that the sirens are blown for the duration of a warning. There have been two warning statements for your area, and if they occurred close enough, one ring should be sufficient. When IC got hit a few years back, they blew the horn twice, for the warnings were about 15 minutes apart. In this case tonight, they were pretty close.
It is possible that power has been knocked out to the siren and the system it uses to trigger the siren.
Don't know. With a tornadic circulation so close at night they should be wailing.
I would have thought so too. The one time the siren went off was well before we were in a warning. Mediacom is down right now, but the local radio stations are on, so I'm not sure about a power outage.
For the question about the Family Video area, I'm north two miles northeast of there and we haven't had more than a few sprinkles here. Should be fine there.
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If you are living near Dows & Hampton, it might be time to fill the water bottle and find the flashlight.
Through the course of this thread, you are in the clear, FD. For now, anyways. Round 2 will see you in about 40 minutes.
Poked my head out for a minute and caught the wind going from still to brisk along with about a ten degree temperature drop. That's never a good thing. I wish the cable would come back on. Listening to local radio hacks attempt weather coverage is painful. Do they just make stuff up when they aren't sure of the right answer?
Anyone notice that you never hear about tornadoes ripping through the heart of the big cities in tornado alley? You never hear about Des Moines, Omaha, KC, Tulsa, Wichita, OK City or DFW just getting demolished by a twister. It's always rural areas/smaller towns.
Is that because it's just a coincidence, and the area is mostly rural? Is it because large cities generate considerable heat, which kind of acts as a shield or something? Is it because large cities are on rivers? I'm just not sure.
Is that because it's just a coincidence, and the area is mostly rural? Is it because large cities generate considerable heat, which kind of acts as a shield or something? Is it because large cities are on rivers? I'm just not sure.
its the heat from the concrete that keeps them away. that's why 2 years ago when the Georgia Dome in ATL was hit during the SEC basketball championship was such a shocker.
There is no exact science. I lean towards the fact that when a tornado touches down, it is more likely to be in a rural setting compared to a big city due to the odds appropriated with the fact that there are many more chances to drop in rural settings than cities. Rural space>Urban centers=More rural tornadic activity.
This was what I've suspected the most. There's been a lot of chances for these larger cities to get hit, and it never happens. Almost has to be more than a coincidence.
KC, Omaha, Houston, Atlanta, etc etc have all been hit directly by tornados in my lifetime. In 1999, a tornado went through downtown Salt Lake City.
I still go with the theory that an extremely higher % of rural land over urban centers increases the rural land's odds of getting hit.
Downtown KC and Omaha were hit?
I could see suburban fringes, but I'm talking like Parkersburg-esque devastation through the middle of a large city. Has THAT ever happened? I've never heard of it, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened.