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Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. Read More >

Another statewide tornado drill is planned in Minnesota for this evening at 6:45 p.m.  Due to the potential for funnel clouds in Wisconsin, the tornado drill for this evening was canceled.

We hope you take advantage of these drills by testing your tornado safety plans at work, home, or at school. 

Here is the schedule:

6:45 p.m. CDT - Evening Tornado Drill

 

         

 

NOTE: While some communities may use local outdoor sirens, no live Emergency Alert System (EAS) codes will be used during this drill. In addition, Tornado Warning codes will not be sent over weather radio. Because of this, the drill will not be carried over cell phones via the Wireless Emergency Alert system.

Please rehearse your tornado safety plans today!  For more information, check our severe weather awareness week page at:

https://www.weather.gov/arx/severeprep

The La Crosse National Weather Service will be testing our Spotter Activation Notification System for the afternoon drill only.  Plus we plan on making contact with area Amateur Radio repeaters to test out communications with our mobile spotters as well.