what does one do during tornado watch at night? (sirens, warning, Florida)
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This is a serious question...went through it last night as well as several other nights, here in Florida.
It's bedtime and there's a storm and a watch.
Any alert on my phone would not wake me up.
Get a NOAA weather radio. You can get them on Amazon or a local electronics retailer. These will give you very loud notifications of a severe weather warning for your area.
Tornado and Flood warnings are pushed through a cell phone if you are in the polygon warning area. Built in from the factory notice, different from app notifications. For me, my cell wakes me for these thankfully, and my home alarm sounds on its speakers for warnings as well (I'm guessing due to the backup cell system...although it also goes off for ones JUST South of me too...maybe it pings off a different cell tower/provider). If I wear my smart watch to bed it buzzes as well but I turn on Do Not Disturb so other notifications won't wake me with Twitter our game alerts. If there's a radio station that plays music you like without a loud announcer or commercials may be able to have that on some type of volume level unless affects sleep. On a smart phone as well you may be able to set to Do Not Disturb for the night and have a friend of family member in same area call you if in a warning if your devices settings allow that specific caller's call to come through/sound or allows call if call back repeatedly. And as mentioned the NOAA weather radio's as well.
We were RV camping in central Florida one time when there was a tornado watch posted overnight and our weather radio woke us around midnight quite loudly (this was pre-cell phone ownership). We headed to the only structure there, the concrete block bathhouse and both of us went into ladies side and found a young family there doing the same thing. Stayed there until it passed by, pretty close but no effects for our location.
There were probably 30 campers in RV's there and no one else made a move.
We discussed earlier that night heading out to a motel but not knowing where it could hit or how sturdy the motel was constructed we decided to stay.
If we'd been home (SW FL) we'd probably go to bed and if alerted go to safest spot in house.
We don't live in FL anymore but when I grew up in FL I don't think there were tornado alerts. We lived in ignorant bliss.
This is a serious question...went through it last night as well as several other nights, here in Florida.
It's bedtime and there's a storm and a watch.
Any alert on my phone would not wake me up.
Get a NOAA weather radio. You can get them on Amazon or a local electronics retailer. These will give you very loud notifications of a severe weather warning for your area.
I sleep. Every emergency vehicle in town will drive up and down the streets with sirens blaring if a tornado is coming. If that won't wake you up, nothing will.
I sleep. Every emergency vehicle in town will drive up and down the streets with sirens blaring if a tornado is coming. If that won't wake you up, nothing will.
This won't be the case for people everywhere or in every scenario. A tornado passed about a mile from my house a couple of months ago and there were (1) no tornado sirens sounding (2) no emergency vehicles at all.
Well, once I get the alert from my cell phone I tend not to get back to sleep really well, so I turn on the local weather that tracks the path of any tornadoes. If I get a second alert, I head to the basement!
#1. Get glued to the radar. You can see where the Tornado or heavy radar returns are and when its arriving and from which direction.. Have a plan in place just in case.
A Watch is not a Warning.
If you get a Warning; see #1 and be ready to take action.
You can hear a Tornado coming most of the time with the winds and heavy rains/hail coming. It doesn't take long to seek shelter.
Anyone with Text Alerts is already ahead of the game.
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