Warning Issued — Tornado Warning Desk

One shift is about four minutes. Your first is a two-storm training shift, and the full five arrive on the second. Tap or click only, no keyboard, plays on a phone.

You are the warning forecaster for NWS Cedar County, and it is April. A shift runs about four minutes of real time. Five storms come through, and each one asks a different question: a classic supercell with a long warnable ramp, a hail core doing a tornado impression, one pure false alarm, a QLCS spin-up with about a minute of tell, and a right-mover that drifts out of a tight polygon.

You read the scope: reflectivity, a rotation couplet that rings while a storm organizes and fills in when it goes tornadic, storm motion, and six small towns in the way. Every cell also gets a plain text threat read, so color never carries the call alone.

Warnings are a promise. One tornado warning and one severe thunderstorm warning per storm, no re-rolls. Polygon size is the bet: tight pays 1.4x and can miss a deviating storm, wide pays 0.7x and forgives. Warn ten or more minutes ahead of a touchdown and it pays triple. False alarms cost public trust, and if trust falls far enough the sirens sound and nobody moves.

The end-of-shift report counts points, but it also counts people: who was in each path, who made shelter, who did not come home.

Between shifts you spend commendations in THE OFFICE on permanent upgrades (more storm spotters who call sooner, a storm analyst, extra warning slots), and you can export the whole career as a paste-anywhere save code, because browsers clear local storage without asking.

Sound is synthesized in the browser, nothing recorded, with a SOUND ON / OFF toggle on the title screen. No sirens.

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