AccuWeather Provided Life-Saving Tornado Warning 12 Minutes BEFORE Damaging Tornado Struck Near Zora, MO
The National Weather Service and All Other Known Sources NEVER Issued a Tornado Warning
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AccuWeather customers and users were the best prepared for a damaging tornado with peak winds of 80 mph, which struck near Zora, Missouri, on Saturday afternoon, December 14, 2024. The tornado completely destroyed a carport, damaged a roof on a barn, and caused widespread tree damage.
AccuWeather was the ONLY known source to provide advance notice
AccuWeather Expert Storm Warning Meteorologists issued a lifesaving SkyGuard® Tornado Warning which exclusively provided 12 minutes of advance notice BEFORE the tornado struck near the town of Zora, Missouri, while the government’s National Weather Service (NWS) and all other known sources NEVER issued a tornado warning. As has been the case with many other situations, AccuWeather was the ONLY known source to provide advance notice of the damaging tornado.
• As a result, people and businesses relying on NWS warnings directly or all other known weather sources that simply distribute NWS tornado warnings would not have had notice of the imminent life-threatening emergency before the tornado touched down. Government cell phone alerting (wireless emergency alerts) would not have been activated, outdoor sirens would not have been activated, and other emergency notifications from other agencies may not have been issued, as those notification methods depend upon National Weather Service warnings. Only those systems that are based on AccuWeather Warnings, which include National Weather Service warnings but also are supplemented by the expertise of AccuWeather's expert Storm Warning Meteorologists, would have been activated.
AccuWeather’s lifesaving warning benefited AccuWeather for Business SkyGuard® customers and customers of the AccuWeather Premium+ feature in the AccuWeather app. The valuable advance notice of 12 minutes, only provided by AccuWeather, enabled customers to be better prepared and offered more time for people to seek safe shelter ahead of the damaging tornado.
This is another of the many weather events where AccuWeather provided superior forecasts and impact descriptions to people, communities, and businesses, helping them better prepare and stay safer.
More than 100 times every year, AccuWeather has been documented to provide more accurate, more advance notification of significant and extreme weather events that impact business and threaten the health, welfare, and lives of individuals. AccuWeather is proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings.
