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ATLANTA, Ga. — The Weather Channel subjected its interns to an indoor, Twitter-powered tornado this week to celebrate Tornado Week.
The live stream runs until 8 p.m. Friday and shows two Weather Channel interns being blasted by effective wind speeds of up to about 200 mph. The speed depends on how many tweets with the hashtag #TornadoWeek are sent on Twitter this week.
If the number reaches 1,000,000, the Weather Channel "will turn up the wind for a full blown EF-5 tornado inside the Weather Channel offices," according to their website.
As of Friday morning, there had been nearly 44,000 tweets sent with the hashtag, far short of the 1,000,000 goal. The effective wind speed in the office was 135 mph.
Effective wind speed is the potential speed that wind would feel like to a human.
