It's bad when an amateur like me could issue a tornado warning way faster than the NWS. While they're the most important, it's not just tornado warnings, either. We just had an unwarned thunderstorm do localized but significant (
several large trees snapped off, some coming down on houses) wind damage a couple counties north of me here in southern Wisconsin on Sunday evening.
Also, I have a noticeable hail dent (the first one of my career) in my car from a chase near Indianola, IA in late June from a storm that did not have a severe thunderstorm warning on it at the time (the reports indicated up to 1.75", just shy of "significant" criteria, hail fell there). I was fortunate to escape with no damage to the windows.
Here's another one for you from last Wednesday's Chicago area tornadoes.
The survey indicates the Plato Center-Elgin EF1 (the larger/longer-lived of the two concurrent tornadoes I briefly saw on my chase that day) began at 6:16 PM.
The tornado warning covering that part of Kane County appears to not have been issued until 6:18 PM. That's negative two-minute lead time for a storm about to move into a quite heavily populated area! An earlier tornado warning had covered a different area of Kane County for a different storm that produced a tornado in Oswego in Kendall County.
That warning was issued at 5:37 PM, but
the survey indicates the tornado began at 5:36.
Mike, from what I've seen on your blog on your opinions about other topics like climate change, COVID, etc, it's plain you and I don't agree on much, but we can agree that this is a serious problem that needs to be urgently addressed. It's absolutely inexcusable that the quality of NWS warnings has regressed so much in the last 10-15 years.