Missouri Kansas city (ap)-many QiaoPuLin residents have been ignored, or slow response, part of the reason is DuoNian by mistake, the alarm about a giant and a deadly tornado spring this year the first warning alarm, the government said on Tuesday.
In the evaluation of the use, that killed 162 people before and during the storm of communications and warning system, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, said many people wait for more information, such as see the urgency of the threat or a tornado on TV or radio reports.
"The investigation QiaoPuLin residents to go immediately to hearing majority does not have the first warning, housing," the report said, those people "and did not take action, with additional protection until the believable threat, and confirm the margins of from non-routing, a special risk trigger."
A "most" QiaoPuLin residents didn't respond for a tornado alarms generally ignored the obviously a whistle, according to the report.
Richard Wagenmaker in Detroit, a national weather service meteorologist and the assessment team leader, said it was not clear, if the public reaction slow life as price.
"It's hard to say how many people died in the tornado in no CunShen, Wagenmaker said:" in a conference call. "This is a very big of a tornado, so has the certain people do all the right things, in the best place to avoid temporarily, but still found himself, no survival ability, so it really is hard to estimate."
The report also says, the national weather service whole careful preparation and "model to carry out", and from the weather service, emergency management and public the combined effort of "saved many lives."
But there are also can draw experience, including strengthening in the tornado warning phrases, the report said. After the storm, the intensity is clear, the resulting warning no wording strong "describe accurately, immediate action is needed to save lives."
Instead, a tornado warnings from "basic template, Wagenmaker said."
"Once became a kind of consciousness, do big is how to return a responsibility, we hope that bad weather and warned that a statement of the urgency of the project of consciousness growth," he said. The warning: "along the" this is a very big and risk of a tornado, don't mess around, "basic line of things."
The report said, weather service is to consider the development of other forms of notice, including the communication based on GPS, cell phone text message intelligent application and the emergency alarm system upgrade and NOAA weather radio.
NuoA also said the agency hopes it called "the weather enterprise", including meteorological service, media and emergency management, the transmission of the seriousness of the threat, in order to make the early warning system better adherence to strengthen cooperation between.
Keith stammer, Mr County emergency manager said, QiaoPuLin is a "weather ready to society", and support the NOAA evaluation.
"We DuoNian to promote local weather radio and housing," he said.
He said, the city has applied for the federal capital of 10000 QiaoPuLin family weather radio and 4000 local residents QiaoPuLin refuge. The newly created evaluation should be to these resources that need, stammered.
The newly created team of about 100 people, including residents, emergency crews and city officials, interview, also examined warning forecast service, powerful tornadoes across the southwest Missouri before about 50000 residents of the city, reduce the QiaoPuLin south part of the ruins.
Interviewed several people said they want to see the different tones of sirens different degree of an emergency, the report said.
Lynn Maximuk, director of the national weather service in central China, and points out that the alarm system, from the weather emergency management agency service, but did not run.
"We are trying to from the weather service, to improve our service, and how we communicate threat information, to provide better service to other parts of the enterprise of the weather, whether they are the media or emergency management or private weather world to try to help them develop a better way to make our nation to the weather, Maximuk said."
Clean, recovery and reconstruction in QiaoPuLin to continue. Four schools have been destroyed, six other areas of the building is damaged. The whole block razed to the ground, is many city's main business district.
Coltharp, QiaoPuLin Missouri state university of southern education, dean of the college of glen said, a tornado alarms can't hear his house in rural areas about 20 miles north of QiaoPuLin. He said he monitoring the weather radio and TV of a tornado.
He said, many residents, he talked about after the rain told him, they heard the alarm, and take the lid.
"I think most people hear it, they take it seriously," he said. "This will be my assessment."




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