I subscribe to an e-mail service that sends out weather forecasts. This morning at 8:39, they sent out one that began…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OXNARD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL LOS ANGELES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA UNTIL 915 AM PDT
AT 825 AM PDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF GLENDALE… OR ABOUT NEAR DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES… MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR PASADENA BY 850 AM PDT…MOUNT WILSON BY 905 AM PDT
…and then there were instructions on how to take cover during a tornado. By the time you read them, you would have received the following e-mail that I received one minute later…
PLEASE DISREGARD THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING. NO TORNADO EXISTS.