Severe Weather Preparedness Week March 7-13, 2021

SKYWARN Information

NWS Newport/Morehead City
2021 SKYWARN®

Severe Weather Preparedness Week is March 7-13, 2021.

Learn how to spot and report severe weather with SKYWARN!

About SKYWARN: Our program is a year round program. Our goal is to train you how to accurately report severe weather to us, ranging from severe weather (hail, wind, tornadoes, flooding) to rain, snow and ice measurements. All of our classes are free and open to ALL ages.  Most classes do -NOT- require previous training. The only exception is our Advanced Class, where it is best if you have already attended a Basic SKYWARN class.

We have FIVE SKYWARN classes, Basic, Winter, Flood, Tropical, and Advanced along with Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow (CoCoRaHS). All of these are also available online. In Spring 2020, we added more educational classes including Weather Basics, Climate Change, Hurricane Preparedness, Severe Preparedness and Rip Current/Water Safety Preparedness. For a schedule, spotter information, and recorded past training view below.

 Latest Schedule: Updated 2/18/2021

NOTE: Classes may be canceled on short notice due to severe weather threatening the area. You will be notified via the contact information you registered with. 

Visit www.weather.gov/mhx/MHXSkywarn for more information and additional classes.