Weather Spotters Training
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Campbell County Fire Training Center10 Training Center Dr
Highland Heights, KY 41076
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Event Description:
COURSE TITLE: Weather Spotters Training
DATE: March 19, 2024
LOCATION:
Campbell County Fire Training Center
10 Training Center Drive
Highland Heights, KY
TIME: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Wilmington uses Doppler radar and satellite pictures as its primary tools to detect severe weather. However, the most important tool for observing thunderstorms is the trained eye of the storm spotter. Doppler radar gives indications of air motions inside a storm, but will not show the wind at ground level. It is impossible for any radar to detect every severe weather event in its coverage area, and radar occasionally suggests severe weather when, in fact, none is present. As a trained spotter, you perform an invaluable service for the NWS. Your real-time observations of tornadoes, hail, wind, and significant cloud formations provide a truly reliable information base for severe weather detection and verification. By providing observations, you are assisting the meteorologists at Wilmington in their warning decisions, and enabling the NWS to fulfill its mission of protecting life and property. You are helping to provide the citizens of your community with potentially life-saving information.
This course is open to all Emergency Management, Rescue, Fire, Emergency Medical, and Law Enforcement personnel or persons interested in weather events.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Course minimum is 20 students.
2) There are no course fees.
3) PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
4) Register online at: http://tinyurl.com/y7yrc3db
b) No phone registrations
