Lightning strike causes damage to Laurel County church
Updated: 6:55 PM - Like many near tragedies the story of what happened to London’s First Pentecostal Church is described as something that could have been much worse.
An experimental National Weather Service warning enhancement will be used across much of the central U.S. this thunderstorm season (beginning April 1). This is an expansion of a smaller NWS experiment that began in Kansas and Missouri in 2012.
The Impact Based Warning (IBW) experimental product is an effort to better communicate severe weather threats within National Weather Service warnings. While the basic function of Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado warnings will remain the same, additional enhanced information will be provided within the warning to provide additional expected "impact" information.
The goals are to provide more information through the warnings in order to facilitate improved public response and decision making, and to better meet societal needs in the most life-threatening weather events. This effort is in response to key findings from recent service assessments of devastating tornadoes in 2011, particularly the EF-5 tornado in Joplin, MO.
Please refer to the video below, as well as the information provided throughout this web page for additional information regarding the IBW experiment that begins April 1, 2013.
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We'll have much more on this closer to the launch. It'd be nice to never have to use any of these, but we will! Stay safe and have a great weekend.
C-Ya Bye
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