Category: tornado warnings
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A squall line of strong to severe storms moved quickly through the Mid-South, including the Memphis metropolitan area, as rush hour began Monday […]
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There are several recent and upcoming changes to severe weather products issued by both SPC and local National Weather Service (NWS) offices, including […]
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Until last night, it had been a long time since widespread severe weather (not including biblical flooding events) had affected the Memphis metro. […]
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In Shelby County, there are five entities responsible for outdoor warning sirens to alert the populace that a Tornado Warning has been issued […]
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As of June 1, Bartlett officials have modified the city’s outdoor siren warning system policy to sound less often during adverse weather, just […]
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Residents of Germantown, TN will be hearing outdoor warning sirens less often, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. A couple of weeks […]
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Last Friday morning, a brief tornado touched down in central Tipton County, TN, about 4 miles northwest of Covington. Two homes sustained significant […]
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After surveying the damage earlier today, NWS officials deemed the damage to the Belmont community of northwest Fayette County (a few miles southeast […]
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While Tornado Alley may be the Hollywood backdrop for storm-chasing worthy tornado action, those of us living in the south know that Tornado […]
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This part of the series is a long time coming, but here it is! In the first two posts of this series on […]
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Recently I had the honor and pleasure of sitting down with several individuals from the Memphis/Shelby County Emergency Management Agency (MSCEMA), including Mr. Bob Nations, […]
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On Wednesday, November 9, at 1:00 PM CST, a first-of-its-kind nationwide test will be conducted in order to fully test the Emergency Alert […]
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I’ve posted in the past on the phenomena known in the weather broadcast community as “wall-to-wall” (or long-form) coverage, in which a local broadcast […]
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There is always a lot of confusion regarding the sounding of “tornado sirens” during severe weather. Here is some information that might help: […]
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