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Panama City Beach, Fla. update: Reported tornado causes heavy damage Tornado warning for Atlanta airport area | 8:15 a.m. A tornado warning has been issued for the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta ...
The National Weather Service in Chicago issued 16 tornado warnings on Monday around the region, the most in a single day in 20 years. This included Cook and DuPage counties, where O'Hare and ...
A tornado watch has been issued for 12 counties in North Florida. At 5:55 a.m., the National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for 12 counties in the Big Bend area until 1 p.m. EDT as strong ...
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
An example of a tornado warning polygon issued by the National Weather Service. A tornado warning (SAME code: TOR) is a public warning that is issued by weather forecasting agencies to an area in the direct path of a tornado, or a severe thunderstorm capable of producing one, and advises individuals in that area to take cover.
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
Triple Threat Storm Tracker: Live radars, alert maps, snow and rain totals. A powerful storm system will bring a mix of snow, rain and severe weather to the central and eastern U.S. this weekend ...
A watch or warning bearing the phrase is referred to as a PDS watch or PDS warning. First used by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), a national guidance center of the National Weather Service, for tornado watches, the phrase was later applied to other severe weather watches and warnings by the agency's regional