Kansas Turnpike Authority to change weather alert system

[rdale]

KTA officials are on this week's Weatherbrains. Basically they said they aren't concerned about confusion with the public on the AccuWeather tornado warnings ("better safe than sorry") - their fix will be to add "AES" to the beginning of tweets if the Tornado Warning is from AccuWeather and not from the NWS.

http://weatherbrains.com/weatherbrains/?p=5655

In addition, per KTA, there was no tornado logged, but AccuWeather confirmed that a tornado did touch down.

 

[rdale]

They stepped it up a notch last night, issuing two "AES Tornado Warnings" for Topeka. That didn't go over well... They were called out for being irresponsible on-air by one TV station (at least) and online by two. And the NWS even had to tweet out that it was not a NWS warning.

#GivingTheBirdToTheWeatherReadyNation

 

[Steve Miller]

A little background on @rdale's post: http://www.wibw.com/content/news/KTA-sends-inaccurate-tornado-warning-tweets-395953361.html

 

[rdale]

Progress! Mike Smith still stands his ground saying there was ample reason to issue a warning, but at least KTA is now no longer sending the "AES" warnings on Twitter. But they will continue to show them on overhead signs, so at least the only people confused will be the thousands of turnpike drivers.

http://www.kake.com/story/33328355/...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[Steve Miller]

You can't make this stuff up, for real: http://www.mikesmithenterprisesblog.com/2016/10/a-comment.html

 

[rdale]

Good thing he included a link to his book - I had no idea he was an author. Then again, since he was named THE weather expert in the entire world, what can't he do?

 

[Kevin R Burgess]

I'm curious.
Kansas is in the red,financially (BIG time),but yet, they are spending money on a outside resource to handle their alerts ?