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Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall in the Eastern U.S. Tuesday; Hot Weather for Southern California

Severe thunderstorms are likely across portions of the Mid-South, Tennessee Valley, and lower Ohio River Valley Tuesday, including damaging winds and tornadoes, a few of which could be strong. Heavy to excessive rainfall, which may lead to flooding, is expected over the lower Ohio Valley Tuesday. An extended period of hot weather is forecast for parts of coastal southern California this week. 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...