Seems strange to me that the tornado in Marshall county this past week and the tornado in Hamilton MS both hit before any warning went out. I just saw where a woman said that she had no alert on her phone and the sirens weren't going off when their house was destroyed. They have a storm shelter but they weren't in it. It's amazing that there weren't lots and lots of deaths in Hamilton MS.

This is why it pisses me off for people to complain about "false" warnings. I'd dang sure rather them "cry wolf" 20 times, instead of being too late on one. I suspect that people who complain about such things have never ridden out a direct hit. I have. I'm not a fan.

I'm not far from Walmart here on top of the mountain and the sirens were going off when the Monday tornado hit. Power went out just as the sirens started but they have backup power so I kept hearing them but didn't know where the tornado was. And, FWIW, I don't have a weather radio so I don't know about those warnings.

Wiley you can either install an app or something on your phone so any alert will sound over your phone. The sirens weren't going off when it came through Douglas.

Troy had a good 20 minute warning alert this morning.

I've been looking at a couple of warning apps. Probably go ahead with one of them.

Seems like the warning siren system is offline as much as it works and for the life of me I don't understand that. Being in telecom all my life and dealing with circuits I've dealt with everything from simple modems to a ring down red phone with no dial on it that rings in the Pentagon when the handset is picked up. I just have a hard time understanding why they don't always work and/or what the common issue is. Is the system antiquated and hard to find experienced techs? If it works some times, what triggers the outages? Are the sirens radio connected or hardwired via telephone circuit?

I strongly disagree. We damn sure don't need them sirens blowing every time a cloud comes up.
Grow some balls, watch the sky, and take measures to protect your family like a man should do.
Don't blame James Spann or your local EMA for your lack of manhood.

I have "Storm Radar" by the Weather Channel and the NOAA radar apps on my phone. The first gives me notifications wherever I am.

I got the WAFF app last night and then deleted it because IMO it's trash. Full of ads, videos with 15-second ads, videos were recorded. Unless I missed something it didn't seem to be useful.

First off, don’t expect outdoor sirens to be heard. They are terrible and decades old technology. We had multiple warnings going off on my phone and had 30+ minutes of warning. My weather radio didn’t go off, but I suspect that was a programming error by me.

I've got plenty of balls. You can kiss my ass. Let a damn tornado rip the back wall out of your house and get back with me on how your balls and family feel. FU

See if you can register for this service, Code Red.
It work great with a telephone call to your cell phone.
You can contact your local EMA for info.
This link is for my local EMA in Cherokee County.

https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/87D9DAD7AF12?isMobile=true

As our buddy Forest Gump would say; “Stupid is as stupid does!” And no way can we fix stupid. But of course we do not have to worry about you getting lost even if you are blown away. But I guess you can "watch" the sky 24/7 and don't need anyone else to ever help.

I've been through them. Two of my neighbors and close friends died in the 1994 (F5) that hit valley grande. I just don't need, or want, the government to step in and take my place as the protector of my family. As long as I am able, I will fill that role.

Sounds like the Troy tornado hit the Hunter's Mountain park and skipped to Montgomery street, then up towards the Piggly Wiggly and Ingram's Curb Market area.

Folks that didn't live in North Alabama during April 2011 wont ever know what that was like. The folks that did definitely have a healthy respect for the power of these storms and appreciate the warnings. Weather forecasting isn't close to perfect but better safe than sorry, in my opinion.

I have NOAA Weather, Storm Radar, AccuWeather and our local TV station sends alerts. I was getting them all night. The sirens in Monroe County, MS, went off at least 4 times according to their county officials morning news conference. Our siren locally sounded twice. The phone apps do work well for rural areas if you have good service. We are in a rural community that is lucky enough to have a siren but generally speaking, I have recieved several alerts before it sounds.

With weather radar apps we try to keep a tight to the weather when we see James Spann get down to his suspenders.

That's bulldoodoo Hamilton knew for the past week they were going to have severe weather. You would have to be a complete dumb ass not to know

This is what cry wolf warnings result in.

You're exactly right, Bill! I hope nobody ever has to deal with anything like that ever again.

Yeah they knew the possibility was good to have tornadoes but according to the report I saw no warning went out until after it had already hit. It was at night. You can’t see them at night except when the lightning flashes.

Either my apprehension for these things is real because either I don’t have the tornado protection super power that some of you have or maybe it’s because there’s been 7 tornadoes touch down on the road I live on, two of those hitting our home, in my life, or maybe that the town I live in seems to have one come very close every year or two. Maybe I just have more respect or fear (whatever some of you want to call it) for them than some of you have. Maybe it was the 7 year old dead girl wrapped in barbed wire across the road from the destroyed chicken houses that I was helping clean up when I worked in the poultry business, or maybe the ton and a half chicken litter spreader in the top of an oak tree, or the house left sitting in the middle of the road, or the asphalt pulled off the road where one crossed close to here, or maybe it was the one I saw out the window in my bathroom that ripped through spring creek at Guntersville a few years ago, or maybe it’s the one that shook our house like a leaf in the wind last year while I told my daughter that no matter what happened I wouldn’t let go of her. Maybe it’s one of those things that gets me all torn up

Or maybe it’s something that those of you who don’t face these things almost every year don’t have a clue about.

Maybe I can muster enough manhood next time to hold the walls of my house together if an F5 comes tipping through.