[sbe-eas] NWS forgetting the lessons of Hurricane Harvey (Houston 2017)

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Wed Oct 9 19:01:11 EDT 2024


NWS is now up to 133 tornado warnings in a hurricane.  Milton hasn't even 
made landfall yet.

The graphic from NWS shows a lot of overlapping warning areas as the outer 
rainbands around Hurricane Milton spin through the atmosphere.

https://x.com/NWSGSP/status/1844129342974009810

Figuring out how to coordinate warning messages is still a challenge to 
prevent incessent public alerting.

Hurricanes have flash flooding, coastal flooding, regular flooding, 
tornados, lightning and thunderstorms, high winds, storm surges. NWS 
standard templates used to give conflicting public action statements 
during the same weather event with overlapping alerts.



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