Department of Geography

 

What is a "municipally-based tornado warning system"?

 

We are defining such systems as those tornado warning systems that are principally funded, operated and managed by the local government. 

 

Municipally based warning systems do not include the federally sponsored warning functions such as the National Weather Service, the Emergency Alert System (EAS), or the now defunct Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) run by the Federal Communication Commission.