SKYWARN spotters coordinate with local emergency management officials and send reports of weather based phenomena to the NWS.

OHIO, USA — UPDATE: The upcoming in-person SKYWARN classes have been "temporarily suspended," according to a notice from the National Weather Service sent on Feb. 19. The NWS will still offer the ...

Weather spotters help generate severe storm warnings. The SKYWARN training is free and takes less than two hours. No prior experience is needed to become a weather spotter. Before she became a ...

Have an interest in working with the National Weather Service to provide early warning of approaching storms to members of your community? Or are you what some might call a weather geek or nerd?

ABILENE, Texas - Weather enthusiasts attended the Skywarn storm spotter training course this morning at Abilene Christian University. About 100 became storm spotters or extended their storm spotter ...

Sky watchers, especially those interested in understanding cloud formations and how to spot severe weather, have a chance to level up their skills. On June 2, the National Weather Services’ last ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The advance spotter training and severe weather seminar to be held in Dayton on March 14 are postponed. According to the National Weather Service Wilmington office, the effort is ...

The ongoing pandemic has changed how we do do things including how we present your daily weather forecasts. The NBC 5 Weather Experts have all been working from home this year. As we prepare for the ...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — The National Weather Service in Newport/Morehead City, NC will be conducting two Basic SKYWARN (weather spotters) training classes this Thursday and on April 27. Both events will ...

A tornado destroyed three homes and killed four people last July in Madison County. The National Weather Service is offering classes for weather spotters to report severe weather such as tornadoes.

A popular series of severe weather training classes, coordinated by the Oakland County Homeland Security Division, are coming back. SKYWARN 2017 is a series of training classes that are held at ...

The National Weather Service-Duluth is offering over 20 free Skywarn Spotter Training Classes across the Northland this spring. Each class is free, and no weather background is necessary to attend.