Jason Bolt
There are a couple questions I've had for a while:
It seems to be a daily occurance to see multiple SVR warnings and even TOR warnings w/ confirmed touchdowns in areas that are not in even a slight risk area and are under no WW. How does this happen with such consistency? I guess I am asking if there is continually severe weather in an area with not even a "see text" box, should the criteria be changed?
Secondly, once 5 or 10 SVR warnings have been issued by the local NWS is there a mechanism to go ahead and issue a watch? Wouldn't that give counties ahead of the storm some kind of advanced notification as a watch is intended to do?
Next, are there firm guidelines in place regarding the boundaries of watch boxes? Take SVR watch 520 as an example: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0520.html
Red Willow county (McCook) is drawn nearly entirely inside the watch box but is omitted from the list of counties. On the other side of the watch box, there are two counties that are almost entirely outside of the watch box yet they are included. How is this decided?
Finally, like today, once a couple TOR warnings are issued inside a SVR box, is there consideration to upgrading the watch? Does the frequent occurance of severe weather with no watches issued damage the public perception of severe weather forecasting?
It seems to be a daily occurance to see multiple SVR warnings and even TOR warnings w/ confirmed touchdowns in areas that are not in even a slight risk area and are under no WW. How does this happen with such consistency? I guess I am asking if there is continually severe weather in an area with not even a "see text" box, should the criteria be changed?
Secondly, once 5 or 10 SVR warnings have been issued by the local NWS is there a mechanism to go ahead and issue a watch? Wouldn't that give counties ahead of the storm some kind of advanced notification as a watch is intended to do?
Next, are there firm guidelines in place regarding the boundaries of watch boxes? Take SVR watch 520 as an example: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0520.html
Red Willow county (McCook) is drawn nearly entirely inside the watch box but is omitted from the list of counties. On the other side of the watch box, there are two counties that are almost entirely outside of the watch box yet they are included. How is this decided?
Finally, like today, once a couple TOR warnings are issued inside a SVR box, is there consideration to upgrading the watch? Does the frequent occurance of severe weather with no watches issued damage the public perception of severe weather forecasting?
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