Beyond the Basics

Lightning (cloud-to-cloud and especially cloud-to-ground)

Wall clouds seen in severe thunderstorms (which spawn tornadoes)

Severe lowering of a wall cloud

Turbulence in a wall cloud

Funnel clouds

Tornadoes

High water areas

Downed power lines

Other emergency conditions that affect life or property

Listen to NOAA for weather alerts and warnings, watch box notices, and weather- forecasts. Listen to Skywarn to hear trained observers in your vicinity call in official reports to a net control station which relays those reports to NOAA and other emergency agencies.

Note: If you tune to a Skywarn frequency when the Skywarn net is

Notes not active, you may hear nothing, or you may hear amateur radio operators talking on a local repeater system.

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