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Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. 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 playlisthttps://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