>I consider myself a very weather aware person living near the edge of tornado alley in Dallas,
Howdy neighbor! Do you find it mildy calming when looking at the weather warning tweets from Delkus while his avatar is cheersing you with a cocktail?
This tech might provide another layer of confidence for tornadoes, but as you mentioned, the hail is another story in and of itself. I have mixed feelings about the "tornado sirens" being used for hail/severe weather without a tornado. I lean towards it being a good idea. I'm actually in Dallas, not one of the suburbs, so we tend to get protected from tornadoes by the infamous heat dome. Earlier this year, the sirens went off for hail and they were talking about softball size hail and larger west in Arlington. So, yeah, people definitely need to know about that. However, it does remind me of the Hawaii debate on using the tsunami sirens to warn of the fire, but it is totally different in that this hail/tornado siren both mean to seek shelter and not a confusing run towards the danger.
Tweets from Delkus and the Fort Worth National Weather Service are the main way I pay attention to new developments. Typically stuff will get posted there before live TV coverage starts. There's almost always a graphic posted of what the window is they expect for storms to form which helps me understand what I need to pay attention to.
I have a relative in another state whose a meteorologist and he doesn't have nearly as much fun as Delkus's team does online.
As far as over-indexing on preparedness goes, there has been at least twice our kids school has dismissed early in light of a severe weather forecast, however they do this several hours ahead of time (parents can't react that fast anyways). Only for the storms to be your more normal strength T-storm by the time carline starts. I can certainly appreciate the intent, but it's almost never that certain what's going to happen unless the storms are already popping up.
I like Delkus' whole team. There's the younger guy that clearly loves the tech, and he's always making adjustments to show things that the old guys probably wouldn't think about. The Delkus and Finfrock types come across more as the guys that would just plug something in and use the defaults for everything. The other guy says "hold my beer" while he customizes everything.
Howdy neighbor! Do you find it mildy calming when looking at the weather warning tweets from Delkus while his avatar is cheersing you with a cocktail?
This tech might provide another layer of confidence for tornadoes, but as you mentioned, the hail is another story in and of itself. I have mixed feelings about the "tornado sirens" being used for hail/severe weather without a tornado. I lean towards it being a good idea. I'm actually in Dallas, not one of the suburbs, so we tend to get protected from tornadoes by the infamous heat dome. Earlier this year, the sirens went off for hail and they were talking about softball size hail and larger west in Arlington. So, yeah, people definitely need to know about that. However, it does remind me of the Hawaii debate on using the tsunami sirens to warn of the fire, but it is totally different in that this hail/tornado siren both mean to seek shelter and not a confusing run towards the danger.