Has President Trump broken our tornado warning system?

While the late afternoon tornado came through Norman on June 3, I followed my tornado protocols that I’d honed over my 40 years in Norman. I grabbed my NOAA weather radio, flashlights, iPads, phones, dogs, neighbors and myself and hunkered down in my tornado shelter. I turned on my NOAA weather radio to get specific information about the Norman tornado up top. This is the transmission that I got. “This NOAA weather station is temporarily off the air. Please tune to an alternate weather radio broadcast or visit weather.gov for the latest weather information.”

My NOAA weather radio also did not sound the loud alarm about the approaching tornado. Two hours after the tornado, the NOAA radio was still transmitting that same broken message

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