[BC] Tornado hits ERI's old area

[Mike McCarthy]

Problem is the CO switch probably could not handle tens of thousands of 
calls at once. Limited call outs like the FD example are limited to maybe 
100 calls.  Then comes the who gets called first and how that is determined 
on less than a few seconds questions.

I'll be really interested in reading NOAA's disaster assessment report to 
see just how much time passed between when the WSR88D near Evansville 
detected the TVS, when the warnings were issued, when the first spottings 
occurred/reported (which is really hard to do at night) and when 
the  tornado actually touched down.

Sirens are still the best way to do warnings. Problem is they are genrally 
spaced too far apart to be effective.  Anything more than a couple blocks 
and with newer homes being so well insulated, their wail doesn't penetrate 
walls as well as before.

MM

At 08:32 AM 11/7/2005 -0500, Cowboy wrote
>On Sunday 06 November 2005 05:47 pm, Dan Kelley wrote:
>
> > What would have been really effective is a
> >reverse 911 if that can be executed fast enough...(well, probably
> >not).
>
>  Actually, yes it could.
>  Something similar has been used to alert voulenteer fire fighters
>  in small towns for decades.
>
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