Thursday, June 28, 2007

June 28th, 2007: Tornado Capital of the...

OK Wyoming/Nebraska Panhandle, I get it...you are a prolific producer of tornadoes compared to Montana!

For the fourth time (and the third time I have actually been at work) since mid-May, southeast Wyoming and/or the Nebraska panhandle has experienced a tornado. Today's was unfortunately just south of Cheyenne near the Colorado border. Although we put an EXPLICIT statement in the warning that the Tornado Warning did not include the city of Cheyenne, the hospital went into tornado mode, they sent everyone in the mall into shelters and actually sounded the tornado sirens ALL across the city of Cheyenne, etc. Sheriff's Deputies were actually considering evacuating all mobile home residents as well. *Insert Lewis Black's frustrated exclamation here* We definitely have some outreach to do in this community to try to make sure city officials don't unnecessarily warn 50,000+ people again.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Michigan tornado stats:
April 0
May 1
June 1
Hava nice day...
Dad C

Kurt said...

That is hilarious! It really is. People don't listen to details, they hear tornado warning for Laramie County and go into panic mode without listening to the rest of the statement. Don't get me started on county officials and how they get that positon! haha
Oh, nice skating pics as well.
Kurt