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A severe thunderstorm warning indicates the warned area is in impending danger from hail or wind speeds meeting warning criteria as well as from lightning and hydrological impacts associated with the storm cell. Severe thunderstorms can and do produce tornadoes without warning. [2] While not all severe thunderstorms produce tornadoes, they can ...
Severe thunderstorm warning (SVR) – A severe thunderstorm is indicated by Doppler weather radar or sighted by Skywarn spotters or other persons, such as local law enforcement. A severe thunderstorm contains large damaging hail of 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter or larger, and/or damaging winds of 58 mph (93 km/h) or greater.
A weather warning generally refers to an alert issued by a meteorological agency to warn citizens of approaching dangerous weather. A weather watch, on the other hand, typically refers to an alert issued to indicate that conditions are favorable for the development of dangerous weather patterns, although the dangerous weather conditions ...
Watches usually cover a large area where severe weather conditions could develop. Kidding aside, a watch means conditions are favorable for severe weather/flooding to develop while a warning means ...
Generally, a warning covers a smaller geographic area and comes when the threat is more “imminent,” McClatchy News reported. For example, the weather service puts out a tornado watch “when ...
Another round of powerful storms is drenching the waterlogged South, causing at least two deaths as it threatens the region with yet another wave of damaging winds, flash flooding threats and ...
Severe weather blew through Indiana, Northern Kentucky and Southwest Ohio Thursday according to the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, has issued a severe ...
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin, an unofficial, high-end classification of tornado warning—sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ...