[BC] Tornado warnings

[Powell E. Way III W4OPW]

--- 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....

A tornado in a hurricane forms VERY quickly and
doesn't move in the same directions. If the radar
shows a possible forming tornado, a warning is
necessary. 

Powell



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