Has anyone else noticed a trend for the NWS to issue Winter Weather Warnings more than 12-hours before the storm is supposed to trek through Indiana? With weather changing so rapidly in all parts of the state, should the IBA get together with the NWS Indiana locations and try to get things straight? Sure it gets the info out, but in the long run, I think they have called wolf one too many times. That isn't the problem, the problem is that we all end up looking like hype-machines and liars. Just watch the morning news on any local Indy station this morning, they are all trying to explain what happened. How about issuing the warning when the precipitation actually starts to fall, instead of the "projected path", which can very easily change in a few minutes. Keep with the Watch instead of issueing a Warning many hours ahead of time. Imagine if they issued Severe Thunderstorm Warnings 12-hours ahead of time...I think Indiana may be in a warning for the entire spring, summer & fall!
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NWS/Weather Warnings
- Thread starter butlerguy03
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Tornado warnings matter. Winter storm warnings seem worthless, especially a day out. We would be better off with winter storm WATCHES until they know with certainty. Tv stations in particular are guilty of over doing these things. They put the non-stop graphic up, and if Joe's barbershop closes and a school 70 miles from Indy is opening late, they'll run a crawl with that info (which 99.9% of their audience has no interest in). Radio is not nearly as guilty of over hyping the weather info.
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Australian Whine
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Damned straight. You sure can't over hype something when you don't have someone in a studio to present the info in the first place.bigtime said:
yeah the "over-informing" is out of control... Here in Fort Wayne on WISE-TV and WPTA-TV (or Indiana's News Center) they run the same crawls, and they run each warning in such a mishap way you can't understand it. I think I remember the NWS came out with a new warning system that is supposed to pinpoint the area that is in trouble, but I wish the TV crawls would simplify telling people.
Radio up here is scattershot...some stations will tell listeners about warnings and some don't. Of course those that don't are because NOBODY IS THERE TO DO IT. I hate consolidation.
Radio up here is scattershot...some stations will tell listeners about warnings and some don't. Of course those that don't are because NOBODY IS THERE TO DO IT. I hate consolidation.
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ginkgotree
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testing testing...is this thing working?
How about an EAS system that actually works. The other morning
when warnings were issued...they came down out tape as watches.
This thing is not reliable at all.
How about an EAS system that actually works. The other morning
when warnings were issued...they came down out tape as watches.
This thing is not reliable at all.
ginkgotree said:
What's worse is hearing "a tornado warning for northeast hamilton, northwest hamilton, southern hamilton, hamilton county, northern marion county, northwest hendricks county, southeast boone county, southern madison county"
yeah i get it...hamilton county has a tornado...
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ginkgotree
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anyone else having issues with their boxes? watches should be warnings
warnings should be watches...times are always off...when they expire...
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warnings should be watches...times are always off...when they expire...
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