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When is Milwaukee's Severe Weather Awareness Week tornado drill? The statewide tornado drills will occur on Thursday, April 11 at 1:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. Tornado sirens will sound in Milwaukee ...
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for southeastern Milwaukee County on Thursday, May 16. That warning expired at 5:45 p.m.
Much of Wisconsin will face severe weather on Tuesday, as three rounds of storm systems pass through the state and bring the possibility of damaging winds, hail and tornadoes.
Emergency Broadcast System, Local Access Alert. The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and AM, FM and satellite radio.
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 ...
In the wake of the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, one of the key recommendations from the U.S. Weather Bureau's storm survey team, was the establishment of a nationwide radio network that could be used to broadcast weather warnings to the general public, hospitals, key institutions, news media, schools, and the public safety community.
The weather service issued a tornado warning and severe thunderstorm warning for parts of southeastern Wisconsin but as of 5:40 p.m. have all expired. The Milwaukee area experienced heavy rain ...
Some of the warnings were issued after tornado sightings, including near Watertown, located about halfway between Madison and Milwaukee, around 7:35 p.m. Saturday, according to a NWS bulletin.