This is a screen shot of my Severe Weather Warnings page (click to see a full size image) ....



If you happen onto this blog and see the upside down red triangle () on the right that means there is an active tornado warning going on in the United States. See the yellow box UNDER the blue box in the upper right corner.

If you see the little tornado () up under Storm Reports that means an ACTUAL tornado was reported within the last 3 hours. See the top yellow box in the upper right corner.

If you are a little more curious, you can click on the Storms Overview link (light blue box on the right of the image above) and get some detailed information. The icon () indicates that a tornado is on the ground. I put a big red arrow on screen shot to point it out. Weather enthusiasts will note that image is the supposed first photograph ever taken of a tornado. I wanted to differentiate between an actual tornado and the vast majority of radar indicated () warnings. The logic that places the icons is not perfect but its pretty good.

The radar image shows the storm that the tornado is part of. The circle with the crosshairs in the middle is the initial location for the warning. I drew another red arrow on the radar image to point that out. Sometimes the delay between the initial warning and the radar can be a good bit so the storm may already be way past the initial point.

The green box in the lower right shows the warning text indicating the tornado on the ground. If you click on any of the warnings on the right of my blog you can get the text.

FYI the lower left of the image shows a severe thunderstorm warning with dangerous lightning and nickel sized hail. There is also a radar image with that and with every warning on the page. Its interesting that all of this lined up when it did. Now you can know what all that weather related stuff is that fills in the blank space on my blog.