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MILWAUKEE SKYWARN MESSAGE BOARD
www.mke-skywarn.org
NEW:
NEXT A-M-S MEETING
The next AMS (American Meteorological Society) meeting will take place March
16th at 7 PM on the UW-Milwaukee
campus in room 160 of Lapham hall. Scott Weberpal of Mukwonago Wisconsin is
the featured speaker.
Scott is a professional storm chaser and Milwaukee Skywarn advisor. His
program is titled "Tales of 2009"
and covers the slow start and explosive finish of the 2009 chase season. We
will be there.
SPOTTER HANDOUT MATERIAL
Make a copy of these two reference documents to better understand the concepts presented during
your spotter training.
Each page is full color in a PDF format. Adjust your printer for the
'Landscape' mode (File/print/properties).
Page 1 - Diagrams and images (1.1 Mb)
Page 2 - Descriptions & Definitions (.99Mb)
SEVERE WEATHER CRANKS UP IN MARCH
Over 25 years of
statistics indicate that beginning in March is when all phases of our severe
weather season escalate.
Check out the monthly and hourly distribution of tornadoes, hail, high winds, and
flooding here:
Link To Severe Time
2010 SPOTTER TRAINING
Annual storm
spotter training schedules are now set for all regions of Wisconsin. Remember
you do not have to be
a spotter to
attend, and unless noted the programs are free and open to the public. Here in
southern Wisconsin all
storm reports require some form of T-L-C-S. Time when you observe the
weather event, Location is your county
and city, the
Condition you observed, and Source of report (your name, agency, ham radio
call, I-D number, etc).
A new automated voice menu system for the general public will only require a
Zip code or latitude-Longitude.
WHAT DO I REPORT?
The reporting criteria for
trained spotters in south-central and southeast Wisconsin includes tornadoes,
funnel clouds,
water spouts, hail, high winds, flooding and more. We have a list and sample
reports listed on this page:
What To Report Link
ON-LINE
TRAINING PROGRAMS
Okay lets assume you cannot make it to a training program or you want more
training. Then visit our Spotter Training
Links page. It contains links to numerous training programs most which are
produced by the NWS.
Training Link
NEW:
WARNINGS TO GET HAIL SIZE-WIND GUST TAGS
Beginning March 1st 2010 all NWS
offices in the north central U-S will add a tag line to severe thunderstorm
warnings,
follow up statements, and special marine warnings. This tag will indicate the
maximum expected hail size and wind
speed expected with a given warning. Inclusion of this information represents
an effort to respond to partner requests
from the emergency management community as well as several societal impact
groups. The target audience for this
product includes
national, state and local emergency managers, media, the private weather
enterprise, government,
and military agencies. This copy from
mke-skywarn.org
With the hail-wind tags local
area emergency managers can now make better decisions regarding the activation
of their
sirens which typically are activated only for tornadoes. Should a particular thunderstorm event exceed the
E-M's defined
threshold (say 75 MPH winds) a siren activation can occur
because winds of 90 MPH are expected. The tag
line will be
found near the bottom of the message as: "WIND...HAIL 90MPH 2.75IN"
Indicating 90 MPH wind gusts and 2.75 inch
[Baseball size] hail are the maximums expected with this event.
The experimental max wind-hail
tag line will be evaluated from March 1st through October 1st 2010. The NWS is
seeking
comments and suggestions regarding its usefulness or improvements.
Feedback Survey:
http://www.weather.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=svr-wind-hail
Service Description For this Experimental Product:
http://products.weather.gov
Map of Affected States:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notification/resources/cr_wfos.pdf
Comments-Questions:
kim.runk@noaa.gov
jim.keeney@noaa.gov
OUR SKYWARN CALENDAR
March 14 Daylight Saving Time
(DST) begins
March 15-19 Flood Safety Awareness Week
March 31 Governor's Conference On Emergency Management in Appleton WI.
April 19-23 Wisconsin Tornado & Severe Weather...
Awareness Week
April 22 1-2PM Statewide drill
April 26-27 Air Quality Awareness Week
May 12 Wisconsin Weather Radio Awareness Day
May 22-28 National Safe Boating Week
June 6-12 National Rip Current Awareness Week
June 10 Wisconsin Heat Awareness Day
June 20-26 National Lightning Awareness Week
June 26-27 Amateur Radio Field Day
June 24 Milwaukee Summerfest Starts
July 26 EAA Air Venture (Oshkosh Air Show)
Oct 3-9 National Fire Prevention Week
Nov 7 DST ends
Nov 8 Wisconsin Winter Awareness Week
Dec 3-4 Skywarn Recognition Day (ham radio event)
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