TORNADO OVERLOAD: We’re in the basement for a tornado warning, and once again the weather radio sounded off ahead of anything else.

Meanwhile, a reader emails:

An excellent warning service is Weathercall.net . This service is what we use to activate our warning sirens.

For $10/yr, you register your address and if your location is in a tornado or severe storm warning area. When the warning area drops from the Weather Service, Weathercall calls up to 3 phone numbers and 3 email addresses or text messaging addresses.

It’s amazingly fast. I receive automated text messages directly from the weather service, and get calls and emails from Weathercall faster than NWS can automated texts to me. ‘

My wife is the Emergency Manager at a local hospital, and now uses this system for her facility as well.

I haven’t tried that one.