[BC] Tornado warnings

[Ron Cole]

Kent you are correct.
Here in Tornado Alley the NWS issues Watches for the potential exist for a
tornado.
A Warning is issued for a tornado detected by Radar or sighted by a Spotter.

Ron
N5HYH

On 8/31/06, Kent Winrich <kwinrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> During the Ernesto thingy here in North Carolina, the NWS kept sending out
> tornado WARNINGS, but then said that the potential was there for a
> tornado.
> Correct me if I am wrong but that sounds like a tornado WATCH.  Not once
> did
> they say there was one on the ground.  In the Midwest when we got a
> tornado
> warning, we knew we had one on the ground.  Paint me confused.  Do the
> different NWS office have different standards?
>
> Signed,
>
> Your soggy engineer....
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