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(MSC News)--Severe Weather Awareness Week is underway, a time set aside annually to prepare for the spring storms, sometimes tornadic, likely to arrive for the spring season.
Chad Omitt, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Topeka, says the week includes the statewide tornado drill, planned for Tuesday, with the annual readiness test happening at two different times, depending on county location. “Folks across the vast majority of Kansas are going to be holding this drill at 6:30 in the evening. That's a little different than in the past, where we've done it traditionally at 1:30,” Omitt tells MSC News. “There are some counties that are actually going to hold it at 1:30 again this year. We're going to be breaking it up a little bit, and those counties that are going to be holding the drill at 1:30 this year, Doniphan, Atchison, Leavenworth, Wyandotte, and then Johnson and Miami and Linn. That is because the state of Missouri is going to hold theirs at 1:30. They want to keep the metropolitan counties for the Kansas City area together.”
During the test, residents are encouraged to practice tornado safety plans as though a real event were occurring.
Severe Weather Awareness Week runs through Friday.
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