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These Illustrations provided by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center Thursday Jan. 16, 2014 show how the marginal and enhanced risks would have been used had they been in place in for major outbreaks in 2011, plus other stormy days in 2012 and 2013. When significant severe weather is forecast, the current rating system labels days as having a slight, moderate or high risk, based on the chance of tornadoes, high winds or significant hail. Sometime this spring _ after National Weather Service administrators in the Washington area weigh in, likely in April _ areas at the upper end of the current "slight risk" will be said to have an "enhanced risk." There also would be a "marginal" category for risks less than slight. (AP Photo/NOAA, Kelly P. Kissel/)
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In this Jan. 14, 2014 photo, Los Angeles Emergency Management Coordinator and Public Information Officer Hans Christian Ipsen ducks under low hanging pipes next to friction pendulum bearings which support the Los Angeles city Emergency Operations Center in downtown, where dozens of specialists would report to handle a major emergency. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake was felt over a broad area of Southern California, causing widespread death and destruction. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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This Jan. 14, 2014 photo shows a sign memorializing the State Highway 14 and Interstate 5 interchange in honor of Los Angeles Police Officer Clarence Wayne Dean, who died when his motorcycle plunged off the collapsed Highway 14 overpass after the Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake. Dean was reporting to work in the predawn darkness and apparently never saw the collapsed bridge. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1994 file photo, the covered body of Los Angeles Police Officer Clarence Wayne Dean, 46, lies near his motorcycle which plunged off the State Highway 14 overpass that collapsed onto Interstate 5, an interchange that is now named in his memory. Dean was reporting to work in the predawn darkness and apparently never saw the collapsed bridge. The Northridge earthquake was felt over a broad area of Southern California, causing widespread death and destruction. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)
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FILE - This Jan. 17, 1994 file photo, shows a portion of the Bullock's department store in the Northridge Fashion Center that collapsed after the Northridge earthquake struck Southern California. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake was felt over a broad area of Southern California, causing widespread death and destruction. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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FILE - This Jan. 18, 1994 file photo shows a multimillion-dollar mansion overlooking the ocean, destroyed in the Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake, in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. The Northridge earthquake was felt over a broad area of Southern California, causing widespread death and destruction. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking.(AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1994 file photo, rescue workers walk past the Northridge Meadows Apartments that collapsed during the Northridge earthquake early that morning, killing 16 people. The Northridge earthquake was felt over a broad area of Southern California, causing widespread death and destruction. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1994 file photo, Al McNeill looks over the remains of his home on Balboa Boulevard in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles, after a gas main ruptured, caught fire and destroyed his home. McNeil had just a few minutes to escape. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake was felt over a broad area of Southern California, causing widespread death and destruction. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1994 file photo, gas from a ruptured supply line burns as water from broken water main floods Balboa Boulevard in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles Monday morning, Jan. 17, 1994. The fire from the gas main destroyed two homes, right. The Northridge earthquake was felt over a broad area of Southern California, causing widespread death and destruction. ( AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1994 file photo, the Santa Monica Freeway has split and collapsed over La Cienega Boulevard following the Northridge quake in the predawn hours. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake caused death and destruction over a wide area of Southern California. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
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In this Jan. 8, 2014 photo, Jonathan Stewart, chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, poses at the reconstructed La Cienega Boulevard overpass of the Santa Monica Freeway, that was destroyed in the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake caused death and destruction over a wide area of Southern California. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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FILE - This January 1994 file photo, provided by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, shows a collapsed freeway support pylon at the La Cienega Boulevard overpass following the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake caused death and destruction over a wide area of Southern California. While the state has made strides in retrofitting freeways and hospitals, work remains to strengthen concrete buildings and housing with underground parking. (AP Photo/UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept.)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CST.-Tango a 4 year old Leonberger sits at the feet of students in D'Nae Wilson's Mutt-I-Grees Class at Levelland Middle School Wednesday jan. 15, 2014. Wilson uses the dog to help teach the class. (AP Photo/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Stephen Spillman)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CST.-Student Noah Riddle, 11, completes his worksheet while petting Tango a 4 year old Leonberger in D'Nae Wilson's Mutt-I-Grees Class at Levelland Middle School Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014. Wilson uses the dog to help teach the class. (AP Photo/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Stephen Spillman)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CST.-Tango a 4 year old Leonberger, at left, roams the desks as her owner D'Nae Wilson, right, teaches the Mutt-I-Grees Class at Levelland Middle School Wednesday. Wilson uses the dog to help teach the class. (AP Photo/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Stephen Spillman)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CST.-Students Adaline Utley, 11 from left, Miranda Villegas, 13, Bryan Gonzaless, 14, and Trinity Ramos, 13, take a moment to pet Tango a 4 year old Leonberger in D'Nae Wilson's Mutt-I-Grees Class at Levelland Middle School Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014. Wilson uses the dog to help teach the class. (AP Photo/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Stephen Spillman)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CST.-Tango a 4 year old Leonberger sits at the feet of her owner D'Nae Wilson while she teaches the Mutt-I-Grees Class at Levelland Middle School Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014. Wilson uses the dog to help teach the class. (AP Photo/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Stephen Spillman)
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File - In this April 11, 2013 file photo, the Contract Fabricators Inc. facility in Kemper County near De Kalb, Miss. is severely damaged after a tornado ripped through the area. A man who was working at the site was killed. The Storm Prediction Center plans to broaden its days-in-advance warning system for severe weather after finding the days labeled with a “Slight Risk” tag turned out to have storms that were fairly stout _ and even deadly. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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File - In this April 11, 2013 file photo, Shuqualak, Miss. residents begin cleanup of debris from homes after a tornado plowed through rural sections of eastern Mississippi, killing at least one person and causing widespread damage and power outages, officials said. The Storm Prediction Center plans to broaden its days-in-advance warning system for severe weather after finding the days labeled with a “Slight Risk” tag turned out to have storms that were fairly stout _ and even deadly. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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In this Jan. 13, 2014, photo, Al Jones of the West Virginia department of General Services tests the water as he flushes the faucet and opens a rest room on the first floor of the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands of West Virginians is just the latest and most high-profile case of coal polluting the nation’s waters. An Associated Press analysis of federal environmental data found chemicals and waste from the coal industry have tainted hundreds of waterways and groundwater supplies for decades, spoiling private wells, shutting down fishing and rendering streams virtually lifeless.(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
