Monday, March 4, 2013

Tornado Warning Wisconsin

I didn't get the cell phone message that there's a tornado warning for my area in Wisconsin, but I did get an email alert at 10:32 AM from Storm Team 4, WTMJ-TV.


These bulletins are currently in effect for your area:
Wisconsin counties
COLUMBIA
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
DANE
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
DODGE
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
FOND DU LAC
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WATCH
GREEN LAKE
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
JEFFERSON
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
KENOSHA
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
MILWAUKEE
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
OZAUKEE
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
RACINE
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
ROCK
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
SHEBOYGAN
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WATCH
WALWORTH
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
WASHINGTON
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
WAUKESHA
TORNADO WARNING until 10:45 AM CST
WINTER STORM WARNING
Oh, my God, this is not a good Monday. A tornado warning AND a winter storm warning!

The tornado warning, of course, was a mistake.

A tornado warning caused confusion in southeast Wisconsin when the National Weather Service mistakenly sent it out as an "emergency alert" Monday morning.

The agency was conducting a planned emergency test and accidentally sent out text messages to cellphone subscribers with the wording, "Tornado Warning in this area til 10:45 AM CST. Take shelter now. Check local media. - NWS. Type: "Imminent extreme alert."

"The message went out as a test, but it went out in the wrong mode. That puts automatic wording in it," said Rudy Schaar, a data acquisition program manager with the National Weather Service. "It went out not in a test mode, so we had to cancel it."

The test messages did not say it was a test. All emergency managers were informed before time, Schaar said.

The agency is still trying to figure out what happened.

"That's why we test it," Schaar said.
Don't worry. There's no tornado. But, A WINTER STORM IS COMING!!!

"Get hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some iodine!"



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