[EAS] Washington Post: Warning activity by weather office
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Tue Jul 12 00:42:51 CDT 2016
The Washington Post analyzed the number of short-fuse weather warnings by
each weather office for the last two years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/07/07/what-the-national-weather-service-social-media-warning-stream-has-shown-us/
The top 10 WFO with the most short-fuse warnings normalized per 1,000 Sq
Mi
# Warnings WFO
1262 60.0 Goodland, KS
966 48.8 Louisville, KY
561 47.7 Jackson, KY
920 47.5 Hastings, NE
670 42.4 Topeka, KS
1044 42.1 Tallahassee, FL
795 41.7 Baltimore, MD/Washington, DC
917 40.8 Dodge City, KS
1389 39.3 Jackson, MS
At the other end, WFO with the fewest short-fuse warnings.
57 1.3 Pendleton, OR
49 1.2 Missoula, MT
14 0.6 Portland, OR
4 0.2 Seattle/Tacoma, WA
0 0.0 Fairbanks, AK
0 0.0 Anchorage, AK
0 0.0 Juneau, AK
0 0.0 Honolulu, HI
0 0.0 San Juan, PR
0 0.0 Guam, GU
There is no recent national data about how many weather warnings were
relayed by broadcast and cable systems.
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