Emergency Severe Weather Notifications
Spent six hours plus last night in Severe Thunderstorms and Tornado Watches and Warnings. The thing that troubles me the most is - the LACK of notification. We did get notified by one of the Campgr...
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I have found that Severe Weather Alerts are not always useful. Summer 2015 there was a severe thunderstorm warning while we were camping. The warning made mention of possible tornadoes many miles from where we were, but there was no mention of 80 mph gusting winds which we did receive. No tornado according to the NWS. This past summer, we received so many warnings it got ridiculous, because only a handful of them actually panned out. In a few of those cases the warnings came out shortly before the event hit.
Our Motorhome radio has weather built into it and it automatically switches to the nearest NOAA station when we travel. I use Weather Underground's weather app and their Storm app on my Android based phone. I use 2 of the WU's weather app widgets. One that always shows where I am and one that shows where I live. That way I get notices for both home and where we are. If we are home, I only get 1 alert. Yes, they require a data connection, but they don't use much and I'd rather risk going over on data than losing my camper or life to a storm I wasn't aware was coming.
-Michael
Our Motorhome radio has weather built into it and it automatically switches to the nearest NOAA station when we travel. I use Weather Underground's weather app and their Storm app on my Android based phone. I use 2 of the WU's weather app widgets. One that always shows where I am and one that shows where I live. That way I get notices for both home and where we are. If we are home, I only get 1 alert. Yes, they require a data connection, but they don't use much and I'd rather risk going over on data than losing my camper or life to a storm I wasn't aware was coming.
-Michael
