Other severe storm events like straight line winds can be dangerous and unpredictable like tornadoes, so why do we have tornado sirens instead of more general highly-severe-storm-alarm sirens?

  • lemmyng@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Other kinds of severe weather are predictable, whereas there’s a big difference between “this pattern could develop into a tornado over the next half hour, batten down the hatches” and “A TORNADO HAS TOUCHED DOWN NEAR YOU, GET TO A SHELTER WITHIN THE NEXT MINUTE OR YOU’LL DIE!”

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      5 days ago

      Yeah, tornado can start, wreck shit up, and disappear in less than five minutes.

      Especially back before cell phones there wasn’t another way besides loud ass sirens everywhere.

    • quiche@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      Very good point. I was thinking things like microbursts or some straight line winds could be just as abrupt, but I’m no meteorologist, and having the alarms for imminent tornadoes makes sense, thank you.