Livingston says Key West's office has plenty of activity - namely waterspouts, but with so little land in their jurisdiction, most of the activity doesn't threaten population and stays out in the water. Who was the least? Well, technically it's Key West (look waaaay down in the bottom right corner of Florida) with three, but that's a bit of a misnomer. The other three were severe thunderstorm warnings - two in 2014 the last on May 22, 2015. One of those was the tornado warning for the waterspout/tornado that hit Pierce County in October, 2014. (That's opposed to like a "Winter Storm Warning" or "High Wind Warning" for a general widespread, long-lasting event.)Īnd once again, just like Seattle ranked last in Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, Seattle comes in second-to-last when it comes to all short-fuse warnings over the past two years with just. These short-fuse warnings are the ones that are supposed to trigger the Emergency Alert System, to give an idea of their urgency. A "short-fuse" means a warning that is urgently issued for something that just developed and is happening right this moment, like a tornado warning, severe thunderstorm warning, or a flash-flood warning. Ian Livingston with the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang has been looking into the effectiveness of the National Weather Service's social media efforts in getting severe weather warnings to the public, also learning more about when you can be expected to get severe weather warnings.īut I mean "you" in the general national sense because for "you" all reading this here around Seattle, the answer is somewhere around the "5th of Never."Īs part of the research, Livingston compiled all "short fuse" warnings from the National Weather Service from June 2014 through June 2016. Fresh off last month's blog showing Seattle was the only spot in the lower 48 with no severe thunderstorm warnings this year comes more research that cements Western Washington as among one of the most boring places in the nation when it comes to severe weather.
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