Here's the timeline of how I received the evening's Test Tornado Warning from various sources, including the National Weather Service, through my cable television provider, and other channels related to the largest employer in my hometown.
7:36 p.m. All three of my NOAA weather radios went off.
7:37 The TV is on pretty loud... "Did you just hear sirens?" "I'm not sure." (Yes, they were going off.)
7:38 Tweet from @IUEMC.
7:39 EAS activiation on all cable TV channels.
7:40 Email from "IU Notify" system arrives. It was time-stamped at 7:37, but took 3 minutes to get through the getrave.com servers to my inbox. (I verified this by looking at the email headers. I'll be happy to provide a screen capture of them.)
7:42 Tweet from @IUBloomington.
7:49 The average "lead time" for a tornado warning is 13 minutes -- meaning a tornado could have just hit your home. How much lead time would each system have given you? Backtrack from here.
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