Hurricane and Storm Surge Watches Issued for the Northern Gulf Coast for Strengthening Tropical Storm Isaias

Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to track toward the central Gulf Coast while strengthening into a hurricane on Thursday. There is an increasing risk of damaging hurricane-force winds and life-threatening storm surge impacts along portions of the northern Gulf Coast Friday into Saturday. Isaias will bring heavy rainfall to the central Gulf Coast and much of the Southeast Friday into the weekend. Read More >

With there being a lull in recent severe weather activity, we thought it would be a good time to offer up some refresher training on storm spotting in southern WI and how you can report to the office. We recommend attending an in-person spotter training session to get the full training (typically held in early Spring), but this will provide you with some of the necessary basics to report to the office. Thank you to all of you who have submitted reports to us in the past. We look at every single one that comes in and it helps with our warning process.

NWS Milwaukee 2018 Storm Spotter Training video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhdpewxZAm_TyRuqa7wv8e5x5ZSfVlQ2l

For individual listings along with the full PDFs of the severe weather safety and spotter training sessions, please refer to the Spotter Resources section at: https://www.weather.gov/mkx/skywarn-spotters

If you have any questions, please contact Warning Coordination Meteorologist Tim Halbach at Timothy.J.Halbach@noaa.gov

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Hurricane and Storm Surge Watches Issued for the Northern Gulf Coast for Strengthening Tropical Storm Isaias

Need a storm spotter training refresher? Check out these videos from our 2018 training.