{"id":569,"date":"2021-03-08T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/?p=569"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:00:32","slug":"nc-annual-statewide-tornado-drill-march-10-2021-at-930-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"NC Annual Statewide Tornado Drill, March 10, 2021 at 9:30 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Carolina\u2019s annual statewide tornado drill for 2021 will take place on Wednesday, March 10, at 9:30 AM EST. Every school, business, work place, and family across the state is strongly encouraged to participate in the statewide tornado drill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are some key points to remember about the drill:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The drill will be broadcast on NOAA Weather Radio and the Emergency Alert System via the Required Monthly Test (RMT).&nbsp; There will not be an actual Tornado Warning issued.<\/li><li>This drill and RMT will take the place of the usual weekly NOAA Weather Radio Alert test (RWT).&nbsp; That is, there will not be a weekly radio test done between 11 AM and Noon on that day.<\/li><li>Most NOAA Weather Radio receivers (including the Midland WR-100 that many schools have) do not sound an audible alert for the RMT product, but instead, may have a blinking light on the display to indicate that an RMT was received.&nbsp; As such, when the RMT for the statewide tornado drill is initiated at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, there&#8217;s a good chance that your NOAA Weather Radio will not sound an alarm.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Since your NOAA Weather Radio may not sound an alarm at the time the RMT is issued, you will want to do one of the following:&nbsp; simply plan to start your tornado drill own your own at 9:30 AM; or, you can manually turn on your NOAA Weather Radio receiver around 9:25 AM, and simply listen to the audio broadcast to hear when the RMT is issued, which will mark the beginning of the statewide tornado drill.<\/li><li>There will be no followup statements issued by the NWS to mark the end of the statewide tornado drill.&nbsp;&nbsp; It will simply be over when your group, school, business, organization, or family feel that you have adequately practiced your tornado shelter procedures.<\/li><li>If there is actual severe weather occurring on the morning of March 10, 2021, the statewide tornado drill will be postponed.&nbsp; The alternate date for the drill is Friday, March 12, 2021 at 9:30 AM EST.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina\u2019s annual statewide tornado drill for 2021 will take place on Wednesday, March 10, at 9:30 AM EST. Every school, business, work place, and family across the state is strongly encouraged to participate in the statewide tornado drill. Here are some key points to remember about the drill: The drill will be broadcast on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/?p=569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NC Annual Statewide Tornado Drill, March 10, 2021 at 9:30 AM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcarolinaskywarn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}