National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

Missouri Statewide Tornado Drill

Tuesday March 5, 2013 at 1:30 pm*

All NWS Offices serving Missouri issue test tornado warnings. Test warnings will alert on NOAA All Hazards Radio and will be sent to the Emergency Alert System (EAS)**

* If severe weather threatens on the scheduled drill day, the test will be postponed to Thursday. 

** The FCC prohibits the use of live Emergency Alert System (EAS) warning codes for test messages.  A waiver has been received from the FCC, aothorzing the use of real TOR EAS/NOAA Weather Radio codes for the test.  We thank the Illinois EAS Board for requesting the waiver for the test.