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National Weather Service Holding SKYWARN Spotter
Training Seminar May 9 at Lowville Fire Hall
Published: May 08, 2024 at
09:30 a.m.
By: Press Release from National Weather Service
SKYWARN TRAINING SESSION
The Buffalo
office of the National Weather Service, in cooperation with WWNY-TV in
Watertown, will be conducting a SKYWARN spotter training seminar at the
Lowville Fire Department, 5420 The Parkway, in Lowville, NY on Thursday May
9, 2024 at 6:00 PM.
SKYWARN is a
national effort to save lives during severe weather emergencies with an
expanding network of trained volunteer weather spotters. SKYWARN spotters
support their local community and government by providing reports of severe
weather directly to the National Weather Service in Buffalo by phone using
the NWS spotter hotline, or by online reporting. The services performed by
SKYWARN spotters have saved many lives.
The National
Weather Service has a number of devices for
detecting severe thunderstorms, including Doppler radar, satellite, and
lightning detection networks. However, the most important tool for
observing thunderstorms is the trained eye of the storm spotter. By
providing observations, SKYWARN spotters assist National Weather Service
staff in their warning decisions and enable the National Weather Service to
fulfill its mission of protecting life and property. Storm spotters are,
and always will be, an indispensable part of the severe local storm warning
program.
The basic
training session provides a brief overview of the National Weather Service
organization and our responsibilities, severe weather safety, and basic
severe weather meteorology including how thunderstorms, severe
thunderstorms, tornadoes, and flash floods form.
Anyone can become
a severe weather spotter for the National Weather Service. SKYWARN training
is free and open to the public.
For further
information, you can call the National Weather Service at (716) 565-0204
ext. 223.
Registration is
required. The registration form link and more information about SKYWARN is
available on the NWS Buffalo website at http://www.weather.gov/buf/Skywarn
On the Web:
NOAA: http://www.noaa.gov
National Weather
Service: http://www.weather.gov
National Weather
Service in Buffalo: http://www.weather.gov/buf
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