Weather spotter training offered at WCC
By Staff Reports
Published in News on September 25, 2016 1:45 AM
Wayne Community College will host training for potential volunteer severe weather spotters on Sept. 28, from 12:30-2 p.m. in Moffatt Auditorium.
The National Weather Service will provide its SKYWARN(r) training, which is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is not required.
SKYWARN(r) volunteers support their local community by providing the National Weather Service with timely and accurate severe weather reports. These reports, when integrated with modern NWS technology, are used to inform the public of the proper actions to take as severe weather threatens.
The key focus of the SKYWARN(r) program is to save lives and property through the use of the observations and reports of trained volunteers. Storm spotters are not "storm chasers."
The training covers basics of thunderstorm development, fundamentals of storm structure, identifying potential severe weather features, information to report, how to report information and basic severe weather safety.
While a number of SKYWARN(r) spotters are amateur or ham radio operators, spotters also call in reports and use e-mail and online forms, so anyone with telephone or internet service can participate as a spotter.
The training session is provided by the college as a National Preparedness Month event.
For more information, contact Tara Humphries at 919-739-7002 or e-mail tarah@waynecc.edu.