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Monday, March 11, 7:00pm - Virtual Spotter Training from NWS Paducah (Registration Required) Tuesday, March 12, 6:00pm - Skywarn Spotter Training - Madison County
Where severe storms are possible, storm spotting groups such as Skywarn in the United States coordinate amateur radio operators and localized spotters to keep track of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Reports from spotters and chasers are given to the National Weather Service so that they have ground truth information to warn the general ...
Two high fatality events after 1953 occurred in Mississippi (23 in 1955) and Illinois (13 in 1967); accounting for 82% of 1952–2006 deaths, both from violent class tornadoes. More tornadoes with deaths in schools have occurred in the Southeastern United States —23 events or over half the national total—than any other region.
While there is no question that storm spotting has saved many lives and aided weather agencies greatly, there is concern that storm spotting may actually put individuals in danger. It is a common practice for many spotters to leave their vehicles or places of shelter to better observe, but this also places spotters in a situation where they can ...
9:01 p.m.: National Weather service reports tornado near Fort Branch, Indiana. At 8:55 p.m., a spotter reported a tornado near Fort Branch, Indiana, moving in the direction of Somerville and Mackey.
[63] [64] Northwestern University, Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago canceled classes Wednesday for the first time in over a decade due to the weather. [65] [66] Over 39,000 state workers were ordered not to come into work due to the weather; this was the largest figure since a blizzard in 1979. [67]
The Frederick County Division of Emergency Management and the National Weather Service are offering "storm spotter" training for residents and emergency responders April 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. Anyone ...
Indiana University High School (IUHS) is a co-educational, non-denominational, distance education high school with its offices located on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington, in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It serves students around the world and provides individual courses and diploma programs to students, online or through ...