Severe Weather Preparedness Drill, Next In Line Mid Valley (Page 12, English)

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 >

Next In Line

3:11 p.m.

Meanwhile, your family in South Alamo partially as a result of your earlier phone call is taking shelter. They gather in the house's central bathroom and duck into the bathtub under a mattress they grabbed off the bed to protect themselves.

As they get into place all of their phones go off with a loud tone. The screen displays this message:

These alerts are automatically sent to your smartphone (unless you opt out) any time the National Weather Service issues a Tornado or Flash Flood Warning for your area. In this case a Tornado Warning has just been issued for your family. In this case, they are already taking their tornado precautions because they knew of the threat of extremely strong severe thunderstorm winds.

It's a scary moment with the storm headed right for them, but they know they are in a strongly built home and they are in it's safest spot.