Field Notes.
What the reports actually found.
Every episode of The Warning Hour starts in the documents written after real storms: service assessments, technical investigations, dispatch logs. These are the dispatches: the story, the findings, and what a household can do about each one.
The archive
- Dispatch Nº 001 · May 22, 2011 · Episode: The Joplin tornado had 24 minutes of warning. It wasn't enough.
Nearly double the national average lead time, sirens that sounded twice: and still the deadliest single tornado in modern American history. Why more warning didn't mean more safety.
- Field Guide · Warning literacy: Tornado warning vs. watch: the difference, in one sentence each.
Three words, routinely understood backwards, and the whole plan depends on them. Plus the siren myths that get people hurt, and the manufactured-home exception.
NEXT DISPATCH: The 2011 Super Outbreak: four states, 360 tornadoes, one day. Publishing with Episode 2.
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The Storm-Ready Home is a 486-page manual built from post-storm reports: 130 numbered protections, 23 hazard playbooks, the 60-day sequence, and the 61-page printable binder, every figure cited.
