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Severe Weather Safety and Awareness Resources

For those looking for more safety information, please view these resources for images and tips to stay safe this severe weather season.  For a PDF version of these images (with interactive links), please click on the link below each image. 

 

NWS Sioux Falls Severe Weather Resources - Page 1 NWS Sioux Falls Severe Weather Resources - Page 2 Downloadable Spotter Card (Card Printing File)

 

Want to Learn Even More?

For those looking for more safety information, there are several free online classes that will provide additional opportunities to learn more about severe storms and the basics of reporting severe weather information.  For those educators out there, check out Jetstream.  This is a great online learning platform that will provide numerous lessons on how the atmosphere works. 

 

Role of the Skywarn Spotter - Online an Free COMET module  (free account required)

https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=817

 

Skywarn Spotter Convective Basics - COMET module  (free account required)

https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=816  

 

Skywarn Spotter Training - COMET module (free account required)

https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_course.php?id=23  

 

Weather Spotter's Field Guide:

https://www.weather.gov/media/owlie/SGJune6-11(1).pdf  

 

JetStream - An Online School For Weather:

https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/  

 

NWS Sioux Falls Severe Weather Preparedness

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