This is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Iowa.  One of this week’s activities is a statewide tornado drill that will take place Wednesday morning (3/27) at 10:10am.  Meteorologist Allan Curtis with the National Weather Service office in Des Moines talks about the drill.

“We do the practice test, one, for us to make sure that everything is working.  But two, so the public is able to figure out and see the different ways they can get the information….make sure their cell phones and weather radios, other things of that nature, make sure that they’re all in proper working order. And in general, it’s just a great tuneup for severe weather season.”

Curtis also says it’s a good time for you to get together with your family and figure out what you’ll do this summer when school is out…..where you should take shelter.  Again, the statewide tornado drill is Wednesday morning at 10:10am.  The No Coast Network will broadcast warnings during the drill.