Virginia schools and workplaces will participate in the statewide tornado drill on Tuesday morning. The tornado drill is set to begin at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, coinciding with the second day of Severe Weather Awareness Week sponsored by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.

And the drill is the time to kind of like make the mistakes so that when we do have a tornado warning, you’re not wondering or spending a lot of extra time trying to find where the safe place is to be,