Tornado warnings are routinely issued when Doppler radar detects rotation in a thunderstorm, as such can be the sign of a developing tornado.
Often times, the rotation stays up in the cloud and no tornado hits.
But what if the NWS saw rotation, did not issue a tornado warning, and ten minutes a tornado hit with no warning? There would be outrage over that as well.
Folks, this is weather FORECASTING. It is IMPERFECT.
He was preparing to call me about a tornado forming over my house ~ which it did ~ fortunately both of them moved on and didn't land.
I grew up around these things. When I was about 13 or 14 we had a cluster hit the East side of Indianapolis just North of Indiana 67. Once it was past a bunch of us got on our bicycles and rode over to an overpass to take a look.
Everything had turned to trash ~ the whole neighborhood was gone ~ just gone.
I've never seen the time where I'd rather just dismiss a tornado warning. That's a good way to turn up dead.
Agree.... Weatherguessers try. Some are bad intentionally like spann states driven by cash cow ratings. Others are sincere.
That is the weak spot in any system ....the human interface.
We are lucky to have a very good spotter crew of volunteers, LEO/FD an EMS that stay up an on the outskirts of our small town on watch during threatening weather.
Our town has a phone dialer alert system as well as sirens.
National an local weather service forcasts an watch alerts put all this in motion.
Works well for our small Texas town ....