Stan Rose
EF5
I find it all pretty amusing. AW has no clue what it's getting into. Issuing a 'warning' is much different than a tv forecast, and you'd better believe there are gonna be liability issues. No question in my mind that they will be sued to death for even the slightest messup.
As for the NWS overwarning, well...duh...of course it is better to overwarn than underwarn. Everyone here knows that tornadoes are not detectable by 88D radar, and obviously it is better to err on the side of caution. So, if AW issues a warning 10 min before the NWS, and it doesn't verify, what then? As a previous post pointed out, there's no real public accountability for FAR or POD, since they are not the "official" source of warnings. They'll trumpet their successes, and bury their mistakes.
I have no problem with the theoretical idea of issuing their own warnings in the spirit of resource sharing and seeing if they can really add anything of value to the current system. But, i wonder who it is they consider their clientelle? How are the warnings going to be put out, and to whom? Is every newspaper that has an AW forecast considered a "client", and by extension, the town that the newspaper serves? How directed or narrow in scope are the warnings gonna be? There's a lot of unanswered questions.
As for the NWS overwarning, well...duh...of course it is better to overwarn than underwarn. Everyone here knows that tornadoes are not detectable by 88D radar, and obviously it is better to err on the side of caution. So, if AW issues a warning 10 min before the NWS, and it doesn't verify, what then? As a previous post pointed out, there's no real public accountability for FAR or POD, since they are not the "official" source of warnings. They'll trumpet their successes, and bury their mistakes.
I have no problem with the theoretical idea of issuing their own warnings in the spirit of resource sharing and seeing if they can really add anything of value to the current system. But, i wonder who it is they consider their clientelle? How are the warnings going to be put out, and to whom? Is every newspaper that has an AW forecast considered a "client", and by extension, the town that the newspaper serves? How directed or narrow in scope are the warnings gonna be? There's a lot of unanswered questions.