by Leslie | Nov 17, 2015 | Severe Weather in the News Blog, Tips from a Safe Room Professional Blog
Do you ever get confused when the meteorologist starts talking about tornado watches and tornado warnings? It can be hard to tell the difference if you aren’t used to hearing either one mentioned. A tornado watch is issued by the National Weather Service when...
by Leslie | Nov 2, 2015 | National Storm Shelter Association Blog
We get that question quite a bit. The short answer is none yet. We’ve had several near misses but no direct hits yet. However, many of the pictures you see of shelters that are in tornado debris have likely not experienced F5 forces, otherwise they’re be...
by Leane | Oct 5, 2015 | Tips from a Safe Room Professional Blog
Tornado Alley Armor’s safe rooms can be! Sometimes our customers are curious about what size of safe room they should get because they are not yet finished growing their family, but they are not ready financially or spatially to purchase a larger shelter....
by Leslie | Sep 21, 2015 | Tips from a Safe Room Professional Blog
As we get older stairs get to be an issue for lots of us. It’s just a fact of life. We will all age and eventually stairs could be hard to go up and down. With Tornado Alley Armor you don’t have to worry about being able to climb down stairs into a cramped storm...
by Leane | Sep 7, 2015 | FEMA Safe Room Guidelines Blog
Tornadoes are rated by the amount of damage they cause. Because it is practically impossible to accurately measure a tornado by wind speeds, Dr. T. Theodore Fujita developed the Fujita Tornado Damage Scale (F-Scale.) This scale provides an estimate of the wind speeds...
