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by oldprogrammer2 744 days ago
As someone who lives in Texas, the push alerts for dangerous weather has been very helpful. Not just tornadoes, but violent storms with damaging winds or hail also happen 10-20 times per year. As previously said, these storms are very localized and often materialize with only 10-30 minutes of notice. That notice can be used to relocate everyone to a safe place away from windows, in the case of a tornado warning, or protect outside pets/livestock, vehicles, etc in the case of a violent storm.