West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Statewide Tornado Drill Scheduled With Radio, Television Alerts

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Jack Walker
A man looks at a digitized rendering of a cyclone on a computer screen.

A man looks at a weather map, on Jan. 2, 2013 at Meteo France local headquarters in Saint-Denis de la Reunion, a French island located in the Indian Ocean, as tropical storm Dumile is forecast to strike the island as a tropical cyclone later today.

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At 11 a.m. on March 20, the West Virginia Emergency Management Division (EMD) will host a statewide tornado drill.

The drill will serve as an opportunity for the EMD to test its emergency notification systems. It will also give residents an opportunity to practice tornado safety protocols in their homes, schools or places of work.

Residents will not receive a phone notification when the drill occurs.

But alerts will play on some radio and television programming, like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather radio station.

For more information on tornado safety protocol, visit the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s website.

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