UNC Asheville offers community storm spotter training course, April 18

Press release from UNC Asheville: 

UNC Asheville’s Atmospheric Sciences Department will host an advanced Skywarn storm-spotter training at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, at UNC Asheville’s Robinson Hall, room 125. Representatives from emergency response agencies, amateur radio operators and interested weather watchers are encouraged to attend. The event is free and open to the public.

Skywarn storm spotter volunteers provide timely and accurate reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service. Storm spotters provide essential information for all types of weather hazards, though their main responsibility is to identify and describe severe local storms.

The course will be more technical in nature than a typical basic or advanced spotter course and will focus specifically on the science and structure of tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms.

For more information, contact Christopher Godfrey, UNC Asheville associate professor of atmospheric sciences, at 828.232.5160 or cgodfrey@unca.edu.

 

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Thomas Calder received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. His writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, the Miracle Monocle, Juked and elsewhere. His debut novel, The Wind Under the Door, is now available.

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