Skywarn Training Schedule

NWS Binghamton SKYWARN and Webinar Schedule

If you have any questions about the classes or registering issues, please contact (right click on the links below to copy the email address or click/tap to start up your email program).

Mitchell Gaines at Mitchell.Gaines@noaa.gov

or our Warning Coordination Meteorologist Mark Pellerito at Mark.Pellerito@noaa.gov

If you have not received a response in one week time, please call us at (607) 798-6620

The 2024 Skywarn Spring Training Season

5/2 Onondaga County Department of Emergency Management 6:30PM register here

5/6 Lakewood PA/ Wayne County Basic Skywarn register here

5/8 Tompkins County Emergency Response Center 6:30 PM register here

5/15 Highway Department Clay, NY hosted by Bear-Bait radio club 6:30PM register here

5/20 Oneonta Airport hosted by amateur radio group 6:30 PM register here

5/21 Wyoming County Emergency Management Agency 6:30 PM register here

5/22 Oneida County 911 Center, 120 Base Road (side door), Oriskany, NY 6:30 PM register here

5/23 Chemung County Harris Hill Ham Radio Bldg 6:30 PM register here

5/28 Lackawanna County Emergency Services 6:30 PM register here

5/29 Town of Owego 6:30PM register here

6/3 Cortland County Regional Training Center 6:30 PM register here

6/4 Virtual Basic Skywarn 6:30PM register here

6/12 Onondaga County Department of Emergency Management (ADVANCED) 6:30PM register here

6/13 Wayne County Emergency Management (ADVANCED) 6:30 PM register here

6/17 Susquehanna County Emergency Management (BOTH/CONDENSED 2 HRS BASIC+ADVANCED) 6:00 PM register here

6/22 Virtual Basic Skywarn 10AM register here

6/27 Virtual Advanced Skywarn 6:30PM register here

Having technical difficulties with the web page: e-mail: Ron.Murphy@noaa.gov

Confirmation e-mails for registration will be sent after registering. For virtual sessions, we will also post and record a presentation to be viewed for those who can't make it to a webinar. You are not required to give all the information on the registration form N/A can be used.

You can also go through an on-line recorded SKYWARN class for basic severe, advanced severe, flood or winter. Once you complete these trainings, email your location name and contact information to Mitchell.Gaines@noaa.gov. This is only for New York and Pennsylvania counties within our area of coverage. If you are viewing these videos outside of NY and PA, please follow up with your local National Weather Service office. While not included in the videos, information on HAM radio networks across the region is listed below. Also, we do not give out spotter ID's.

National: Skywarn Spotter Training via the COMET Program 2 hour course
Local: May 2023 NWS Binghamton Basic Severe Skywarn (~80 minutes of video)
Local: June 2023 NWS Binghamton Advanced Severe Skywarn (~ 2 hour video)
Local: December 2023 NWS Binghamton Winter Skywarn (~1 hr 50 min video)

About SKYWARN: Our program is a year round program. Our goal is to train you how to accurately report severe weather to us, ranging from snowfall measurements, to severe weather (hail, wind, tornadoes, flooding). We offer a Basic SKYWARN and an Advanced SKYWARN in our spring/early summer season, and a Basic Winter SKYWARN in the fall. Flood SKYWARN is done throughout the year based on interest. Anyone is welcome to attend the Basic SKYWARN classes, there is no age requirement and you do not need to have had prior training. For our Advanced classes we require that you have attended (1) of our previous SKYWARN classes in the past 3 years. This can include either our spring or winter version.

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