[WIham] Fwd: Severe Weather Seminar, Baraboo, Monday, 3/30 @ 6 - 8 pm

Mark Thompson via WIham wiham at mailman.qth.net
Mon Mar 23 12:02:30 EDT 2015



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Date:Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:49 AM
Subject:Fwd: Community Message: Severe Weather Seminar

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 Monday March 23, 2015, 10:10 AM 

Sauk County Nixle Information System

    

Community: Severe Weather Seminar

Dear Nixle User,

Sauk EM 

The 2015 Severe Weather Seminar will be held on Monday March 30, 2015 at the West Square Building, 505 Broadway St, Room B-24, in Baraboo from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Registration is not required, but encouraged by calling 355-4410. 

The Severe Weather Spotter Class is conducted by the Midwest Severe Storm Tracking / Response Center and is designed to teach first responders, and other interested volunteers, techniques that will enable them to identify cloud features that foretell the development of tornadoes or severe thunderstorm straight-line winds. When this information is relayed to the NWS, and used in conjunction with radar imagery, it helps forecasters more quickly determine if a tornado warning or a severe thunderstorm warning is needed. 

Due to the curvature of the earth's surface and the fact that the radar beam goes out in a straight line, the lowest radar beam is found higher above the ground the further one goes from the radar site. Therefore, beyond about 30 miles, Doppler radar can't detect what is happening below cloud base. Consequently, severe weather spotters are the eyes and ears of the NWS - they provide ground truth and cloud base information and verify what radar sees or doesn't see. 

After the storms have ended, severe weather reports are entered into a publication entitled Storm Data, which is a national database that documents severe weather events across the U.S. These reports become part of our historical weather information that is used to calculate the risk of natural hazards. Also, mitigation efforts are based on severe weather reports. 

Topics discussed include what kind of reports the NWS needs, the proper format of severe weather reports, thunderstorm structure, cloud features that preceded tornado or severe thunderstorm development, basic radar interpretation, scary-looking clouds that trigger false tornado and false funnel cloud reports, and a few safety tips. 

Contact Information: 
Jeff Jelinek 
608-355-4410 
jjelinek at co.sauk.wi.us

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