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What to Report

 

Spotters are encouraged to report the following phenomena, if it is safe to do so

 

 

Tornadoes

Flooding

Winter Weather

  • Tornado
  • Funnel Cloud
  • Wall Cloud
  • Persistent Rotation

 

 

  • Flooding that results in evacuations
  • Water rescues: cars, roofs, or trees
  • Water Rapidly rising, or entering homes, not just basements
  • Roads Impassable or closed due to high water
  • Small Streams or rivers overflowing their banks
  • Moderate coastal flooding, not just nuisance inundation
  • 1” Snow in 24 hours
  • 1” Snow in past hour
  • Freezing Rain/Drizzle
  • Any Ice Accumulation

 

Thunderstorms

 

Miscellaneous

  • Tree uprooted or downed
  • > 1 large limb downed
  • Power lines downed
  • Hail (any size)
  • Rain > 1” in past hour
  • Winds > 40 MPH
  • Damage to Structures
  • Tsunami

 

Any injuries or deaths that are weather related

 

Note: Lightning is not a reportable phenomenon, but lightning related damage and casualties are.