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The session was created by Woodall to offer training that extended beyond the Weather Service's "basic" and "advanced" training. Training focuses primarily on the various weather elements storm spotters witness in the field including properly identifying tornadoes, wall clouds and other storm features.
Skywarn (sometimes stylized as SKYWARN) is a program of the National Weather Service (NWS). Its mission is to collect reports of localized severe weather in the United States. These reports are used to aid forecasters in issuing and verifying severe weather watches and warnings and to improve the forecasting and warning processes and the tools ...
Particularly dangerous situation. In weather forecasting in the United States, " particularly dangerous situation " ( PDS) is enhanced wording used by the National Weather Service to convey special urgency in some watch or warning messages for unusually extreme and life-threatening severe weather events, above and beyond the average severity ...
On average, 72% of all tornado-related fatalities occur in homes, 54% of which are in mobile homes, according to the National Weather Service. Someone in a mobile home is 15 to 20 times more ...
Close to 75 million people may be at risk of severe weather. Two main zones of severe weather will likely take center stage into Thursday evening. Some communities from the
In meteorology, training denotes repeated areas of rain, typically associated with thunderstorms, that move over the same region in a relatively short period. Training thunderstorms are capable of producing excessive rainfall totals, often causing flash flooding. [1] The name training is derived from how a train and its cars travel along a ...
Severe weather may hold up to the west over the North Carolina mountains. While the extent of severe thunderstorms in the East on Memorial Day may be limited to parts of the region, the strongest ...
Severe thunderstorm warning (SVR) – A severe thunderstorm is indicated by Doppler weather radar or sighted by Skywarn spotters or other persons, such as local law enforcement. A severe thunderstorm contains large damaging hail of 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter or larger, and/or damaging winds of 58 mph (93 km/h) or greater.