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Now, the next question, how many people actually see/hear the SWS information during an event?
Every media outlet gets the SVS product, so anyone reading "TE" will likely pass that along.
After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.
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Now, the next question, how many people actually see/hear the SWS information during an event?
I meant those not watching/listening to media. How many people get SVS on their phone, check it out online, hear it on wx radio, etc. How many even know that SVS' exist and that it's a place to get updated info on the warning?
I know from experience there are some media people (especially radio) that will just read the original warning over and over until expiration, even if 2-3 SVS' get issued in that 45 min span
For a tornado warning we want
On the same topic - when are we going to stop using the terminology "slight risk" to convey the message that severe weather will probably occur in the region today? I see this all the time on our local media. Slight risk. Most people would take that to mean that severe weather is not going to occur.
Why not use - enhanced or elevated risk? Doesn't that convey the message better?
I don't even remember the low risk wording"Slight" risk replaced the term "low" risk so, to me, "slight" was a slight improvement.
I'm not sure what I think about none/elevated/moderate/high. That might work, but keep in mind that the convective outlook -- originally -- was not intended for the general public. It was on NAFAX and DIFAX only. Perhaps we need to change that mindset and not assume people understand the hierarchy is none/slight/moderate/high.
I don't even remember the low risk wording- what years were they doing that?
Maybe so, but I'm willing to bet the television meteorologists would read such a statement and thus it would get out into the public.I would bet you could run a message that read "You're about to die unless you seek shelter now!" across people's televisions and a lot would pay no attention.