And it may just be that the people complaining were simply a subset of the type of people that would watch such a show. Personally, I never heard of it.
However, If I had been watching a show and there was a tornado warning, I’d consider it based on where I live. If they felt the need to spend more than a minute or so talking about it, I’d change the channel, assuming I was not already on my way to my storm shelter.
A couple of weeks ago, our local weather man commandeered the broadcast for three or four hours. There were tornados on the ground—just none where we are. We missed the 2nd to last episode of Big Bang Theory and my wife was perturbed with him and the station.
Then last week we had another weather “action day”. They said, “don’t call us, you can watch shows on cbs.com. It would have been nice if they had done that the week before, but I guess they got a lot of complaints. That said, the weather radars were showing where the tornados were and they were alerting people in the paths. Missing a show I want to see or maybe people dying, what to do, what to do?