{"id":15796,"date":"2025-01-20T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15796"},"modified":"2025-01-20T02:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:19:51","slug":"license-plate-letters-pds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/license-plate-letters-pds\/","title":{"rendered":"License Plate Letters \u2014 PDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Weather Service has the rare designation “Particularly Dangerous Situation” for potentially extreme weather. The most recent one issued in Iowa, according to the Iowa Environmental Mesonet<\/a>, was in a pair of tornado warnings issued for parts of Polk and Warren counties on July 15, 2024.<\/p>\n

The NWS Quad Cities office issued a PDS with its severe thunderstorm watch<\/a> for its entire area (as did La Crosse for three counties) on August 10, 2020, at 11:28 AM CDT \u2014 about when the derecho was slamming the Iowa Highway 14 corridor to the west, and about 75 minutes before Cedar Rapids lost power<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, we have a Particularly Dangerous Situation in the KWWL and KIMT viewing areas. NPR<\/a>, and WSIL-TV<\/a> (Paducah\/Carbondale\/Cape Girardeau), along with trade publications Cord Cutters News<\/a> and AdWeek<\/a>, are reporting that Allen Media Group will dispose of the weather departments of its entire TV station portfolio by the end of March. A meteorologist in Huntsville<\/a> confirmed it on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Each station on the broadcast airwaves must operate in the “public interest, convenience, and necessity.” I would say wall-to-wall coverage of a tornado warning is one of the highest forms of all three. You can’t break into weather on the 8s or a for that.<\/p>\n

I joke when meteorologists point out long-extinct towns that still show up on the maps for some reason, places that they’re reading because that’s what’s on the screen. But if someone in Atlanta drops a bad pronunciation of Keokuk or Winneshiek \u2014 or, Lord help us, Quasqueton \u2014 it’s going to resonate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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