Tornado during public event

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From: Chris Novy
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 19:24

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>The baseball stadium situation scenario is a tough one to call. If you
>start a panic, then more people will get hurt than would probably get
>hurt by the 'reported' approaching tornado. If you say nothing, then you
>will catch it if a tornado strike did happen. You might want to announce
>that heavy rain was approaching and that would cause some to move for
>cover while others would decide to sit and wait it out... this is the
>best action, in my mind, to have any luck with such a situation.

That's exactly what I'd do.  Althought I might mention "strong storms"
to get better compliance.  I'd ask people to enter the interior, lower
levels of the stadium because of "lightning danger" but I would not
mention a tornado over the PA system.  Doing so would only cause
a stampede --resulting in hundreds of deaths.  ..Chris..
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