{
  "id": "2025-04-03-university-of-mississippi-tornado-watch-apr-03",
  "slug": "university-of-mississippi-tornado-watch-apr-03-2025-04-03",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Mississippi",
    "shortName": "Ole Miss",
    "state": "MS",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "RebAlert",
    "enrollment": 22000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-04-03",
    "type": "severe-weather",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "unknown",
    "headline": "Midweek Lafayette tornado watch with precaution and shelter-readiness",
    "headlinePublic": "Midweek Lafayette tornado watch with precaution and shelter-readiness",
    "summary": "Ole Miss [RebAlert](https://x.com/RebAlert/status/1907854876820000955) issued a tornado watch for Lafayette County with precaution and seek-shelter-if-warned guidance.",
    "outcome": "Tornado watch product with contingent shelter instruction; no warning-upgrade all-clear captured on this thread."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-04-03T12:57:03-05:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "REBALERT: A Tornado Watch is in effect for Lafayette County. Take precautions, check the weather, & if a Warning is issued seek shelter! Go to https://olemiss.edu/emergency/ for updates. \n#RebAware",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/RebAlert/status/1907854876820000955",
      "sourceDescription": "@RebAlert Lafayette County tornado watch",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent X fetch match (keyword + thread_fetch) 2026-08-24; second blind sha256 31a3f1e679fd0a4c033d8691b552093b4cfa8b3daf0e5ea299164e05e40b4302.",
        "Thread checked 2026-08-24: no further posts from @RebAlert for this incident.",
        "Campus-directed contingent shelter: if a Warning is issued seek shelter. Not a siren test.",
        "Distinct incident from 2025-04-02-university-of-mississippi-tornado-watch-apr-02: different watch day one day earlier with a distinct status ID.",
        "Distinct incident from 2025-04-04-university-of-mississippi-tornado-watch-apr-04: different watch day one day later with a distinct status ID."
      ],
      "characterCount": 197
    }
  ],
  "context": "Ole Miss Emergency Management posts RebAlert products on [@RebAlert](https://x.com/RebAlert). Identical short-form tornado-watch template is reused across distinct NWS watch days.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official RebAlert tornado watch with Lafayette County location and contingent seek-shelter guidance."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "@RebAlert tornado watch 2025-04-03",
      "url": "https://x.com/RebAlert/status/1907854876820000955",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-24",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523 at capture; archive.org save endpoint unavailable or throttled"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "public-r1",
    "mississippi",
    "tornado-watch",
    "rebalert",
    "ole-miss"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-24",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-24",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}