Updates at the moment are being posted to the DukeALERT web site.
The Nationwide Climate Service issued a twister look ahead to a lot of central North Carolina, together with Durham, Wake and surrounding counties for Friday till 6 p.m.
A watch means situations are favorable for the event of tornadoes in and near the watch space.
Within the occasion of a twister warning, which signifies a twister has been sighted or indicated on radar, Duke officers will ship a textual content and e mail notification to college students, college and employees. If the warning space contains Duke’s foremost campus, the sirens will even be activated together with textual content and e mail notifications to direct people to hunt shelter instantly.
Throughout a twister watch, the climate service suggests that individuals ought to be looking out for threatening climate situations and pay attention for later statements and potential warnings. For extra details about Duke’s emergency response plan for tornados, go to the Duke Emergency Administration web site.
A number of occasions and actions are deliberate on Duke’s foremost campus as a part of graduation weekend. Officers have taken precautions round deliberate outside actions for this afternoon and night.