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  2. Weather warning - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, governmental weather warnings and watches are issued by the Environment Canada.Environment Canada defines an advisory as "an alert to cover a wide array of deteriorating weather conditions," a watch as "when conditions favour that severe weather forming" and a warning as "severe weather is actually occurring or is imminent."

  3. Severe thunderstorm warnings, watches issued across ... - AOL

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    A severe weather warning is issued when a storm is already in the area or forthcoming. They typically last anywhere between 20 minutes to an hour and the big push for safety is to take cover.

  4. Storm spotting - Wikipedia

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    Their mandate had also changed to include reporting all types of active or severe weather; this included giving snow depth and other reports during the winter as well as fire reports in the summer, along with the more typical severe weather reports associated with thunderstorms. However, spotting was still mainly carried out by trained ...

  5. National Severe Weather Warning Service - Wikipedia

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    The National Severe Weather Warning Service (shortened to NSWWS) is a service provided by the Met Office in the United Kingdom. The purpose of this service is to warn the public and emergency responders of severe or hazardous weather which has the potential to cause danger to life or widespread disruption. This allows emergency responders to ...

  6. European Severe Storms Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    The European Severe Weather Database (ESWD) collects and verifies reports on dust, sand- or steam devils, tornadoes, gustnadoes, large hail, heavy rain and snowfall, severe wind gusts, damaging lightning strikes and avalanches all over Europe and around the Mediterranean.

  7. Tornado warning - Wikipedia

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    An example of a tornado warning polygon issued by the National Weather Service. A tornado warning (SAME code: TOR) is a public warning that is issued by weather forecasting agencies to an area in the direct path of a tornado, or a severe thunderstorm capable of producing one, and advises individuals in that area to take cover.

  8. Convective storm detection - Wikipedia

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    Often, news of a tornado would reach a local weather office after the storm. However, with the advent of weather radar, areas near a local office could get advance warning of severe weather. The first public tornado warnings were issued in 1950 and the first tornado watches and convective outlooks in 1952. [3]

  9. Severe weather terminology (Canada) - Wikipedia

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    Weather Warning – A generic weather warning may be issued for extreme weather events for which there is no suitable warning type, because they rarely occur. For example, for 50 km/h winds following an ice storm which could cause structural wind damage, even if the wind warning criteria of 90 km/h (56 mph) is not expected to be reached.

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