❓ Quick Help
No jargon required. Here's what everything on screen means.
The Screens
📡 Radar — shows where rain, wind, and storms are, using radio waves bounced off precipitation.
🛰️ Satellite — a view of the clouds from space, good for seeing a storm's overall shape and strength.
📞 Reports — what people on the ground (callers, spotters, police) are telling you right now.
⚠️ Alerts — any warnings currently in effect, and a log of what you've issued this shift.
🖥️ Systems — whether your equipment (radar, sirens, radios) is actually working. Sometimes the "storm" is really just a broken machine.
🗺️ Map — which county is affected.
Common Terms
dBZ — how strong a storm's radar echo is. Higher usually means heavier rain or hail.
Couplet / rotation — a radar sign that part of a storm is spinning, a warning sign for tornadoes.
Hook echo — a hook-shaped radar pattern often linked to tornado-producing storms.
Supercell — a powerful, long-lasting rotating thunderstorm, the type most likely to spawn a tornado.
Dissemination — the systems that actually get your warning out to phones, radios, and TVs.
Scoring
Public Trust — your score. Good calls raise it, false alarms and missed warnings lower it.
Strikes — two shifts ending with low trust and you're let go. Everything resets after that.