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Critical to Extremely Critical Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Hurricane Rafael

A strong Santa Ana wind event will lead to critical to extremely critical fire weather conditions over portions of southern California Wednesday. Rafael has strengthened into a hurricane and is expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico by Thursday. Tropical Storm Watches have been issued for parts of the Florida Keys. It is too soon to determine any northern Gulf Coast impacts. Read More >

The National Weather Service in Dodge City provides storm identification/spotter training sessions each spring. These sessions are done in cooperation with county Emergency Management agencies across the area.  All training is free and is open for anyone to attend and is not designed for just storm spotters.  Anyone with a desire to learn how to identify severe weather and to learn about the dangers from these storms is encouraged to attend.  The program lasts around 1 1/2 hours.            

         
The following is a schedule for training through April.  All times are in Central time except for Hamilton county which is listed in Mountain time...