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Ours is Mondays!

The image says what happens. It can't hurt you, it's against the rules.

They cancel it if the weather isn’t good, just in case they need it for real.

They'll likely run a different signal than the normal test. If, for example, they normally test in "alert" (steady) then they might use the "attack" (wavering up and down) signal instead.

Then the Tornado Guards will shoo it away.

Then they nuke the tornado

you would know, it's almost always done during clear weather.

It runs for maybe a minute at 1pm. If it goes off before or after, it's not a test.

Like in 2017 in Mexico when the earthquake happened like two hours after their yearly earthquake drill. People figured it out pretty quickly, but I've never been in a tornado so I don't know if it'd be as easy to tell as an earthquake.

Sundown towns... were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States... The term came into use because of signs that directed "colored people" to leave town by sundown.

The towns of Minden and Gardnerville in Nevada had an ordinance from 1917 to 1974 that required Native Americans to leave the towns by 6:30 p.m. each day. A whistle, later a siren, was sounded at 6 p.m. daily, alerting Native Americans to leave by sundown. In 2021, the state of Nevada passed a law prohibiting the appropriation of Native American imagery by the mascots of schools, and the sounding of sirens that were once associated with sundown ordinances. Despite this law, Minden continued to play its siren for two more years, claiming that it was a nightly tribute to first responders.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town