Starting this week, the National Weather Service will be issuing a new tier of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings that will automatically be delivered to your cell phone.

Severe thunderstorms capable of producing 80 mph winds or baseball-sized hail will now be categorized as "destructive," a classification that will prompt the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) to sound on your phone if you are near the storm.

The WEA functionality already delivers severe weather alerts to your phone for all tornado warnings and select flash flood warnings.

The change is a part of a multi-year effort by the National Weather Service to simplify their severe weather hazards and make them more assemble.

This week to help understand the change, we're looking back at part of an interview with Trisha Palmer, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service Office in Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina.

See the full interview: https://youtu.be/2oycYpg6VEs

See our 2019 interview about the NWS Hazard Simplification Project: https://youtu.be/jdSVhXr9G_A

Prepare for the hurricane season: https://www.weather.gov/safety/hurricane

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