Consider participating in the statewide tornado drill, Thursday, April 16

The National Weather Service (NWS) will be conducting a virtual tornado drill this year on Thursday, April 16. There will not be a test tornado watch or warning that comes out of the NWS office in Wisconsin or Minnesota. So, no Emergency Alert System (EAS) message will be sent to TV/radio or alerting on NOAA Weather Radio. Also, WEA (Wireless Emergency Alerts) will not go off on cell phones.

Instead, the NWS asks everyone to take 15 minutes (at 1:45 p.m. if possible), which was when the test tornado warning was supposed to go out) to practice their own tornado and severe weather safety plans with co-workers and family members.