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[Mike McCarthy]

It could be our WFO is participating in a test or special program which
included additional information in a given warning. Or, as is the case
with a great number of counties, there is no interstate or large venue in
the county to mention. However, most warnings I'm hearing or reading do
have local towns/cities in the path included in the message.

As I noted in my post to Mr. Curtis, I would argue 90% of the general
public would not know what county they're in when not at/close to home.
When I'm out of our metro, I'm in that camp.  I don't have location
tracking enabled on my phone (nor do I care to) and am just as blind as
the guy in the hotel room next door until I log onto the NWS WFO site and
find the county. Something less than 1% of the public will do in their
travels without reason to do so.

MM

On Tue, June 4, 2019 5:16 pm, Adrienne Abbott wrote:
> Mike--
> Not all WFO's are sending these longer messages. A friend of mine just
> returned from a work trip to Mississippi. A tornado warning was issued
> while she was driving back to her hotel and she was very alarmed because
> she didn't know which county she was in and only the county was mentioned
> in the warning.