Very good point. I was thinking things like microbursts or some straight line winds could be just as abrupt, but I’m no meteorologist, and having the alarms for imminent tornadoes makes sense, thank you.
Other severe storm events like straight line winds can be dangerous and unpredictable like tornadoes, so why do we have tornado sirens instead of more general highly-severe-storm-alarm sirens?
That’s very probably the case for me—that it is just what we call them around here. Thank you!