December 1-6, 2025 is Southern Plains Winter Weather Preparedness Week. Please join us in promoting winter weather safety during this year's "Winter Weather Preparedness Week". The National Weather Service asks emergency management, public safety officials, local media and Weather-Ready Nation Ambassadors to help join forces in improving the nation's readiness, responsiveness, and overall resilience against extreme weather during the winter weather season.

So how does one prepare for winter weather? For a winter weather preparedness plan to be successful, it must include the following:

• knowledge of terminology such as watches and warnings,
• understanding the types of winter weather that could occur in the local area, 
• a thorough knowledge of safety rules to follow when winter weather strikes,
• a reliable method of receiving emergency information,
• the designation of an appropriate shelter from winter weather and the extreme cold

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Contact Information
You are also invited to contact the National Weather Service for interviews, information, or answers to any questions you may have. In many instances, we are also able to present severe or winter weather preparedness programs to civic and industrial organizations, schools, amateur radio clubs, hospital staffs or any other community groups.

• Samantha Brown, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
  National Weather Service Office: Dodge City, KS
  620-225-6514

• Joanne Culin, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
  National Weather Service Office: Amarillo, TX
  806-335-1121

• Marissa Pazos, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
  National Weather Service Office: Lubbock, TX
  806-745-4260

• Rick Smith, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
  National Weather Service Office: Norman, OK
  405-325-3816