The National Weather Service will be conducting a Test Tornado Drill on Wednesday, March 27.
The timeline for the Wednesday, March 27 Drill:
- 1000 AM CDT…The Storm Prediction Center issues a Test Tornado Watch for all counties. The test message will be tone alerted and sent through the Emergency Alert System. The watch will be valid for one hour.
- 1015 AM CDT…Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) that serve Nebraska and Iowa issues a TEST Tornado Warnings for their Nebraska Counties and Iowa Counties valid for 20 minutes. THIS IS THE TIME THAT COUNTIES MAY BE SOUNDING SIRENS.
- 1035 AM CDT… Nebraska and Iowa issue a Severe Weather Statement cancelling their tornado warning
- 1100 AM CDT… The test tornado watch expires for all of Nebraska and Iowa
THESE TESTS WILL NOT BE ACTIVATING THE WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT (WEA) MESSAGING SYSTEM ON CELL PHONES.
If there is severe weather on the drill date, then it will be postponed to the 28th. If there is severe weather on the 28th, it will be postponed to the 29th.
