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The National Weather Service Recognizes Wyoming County, Pennsylvania as StormReady
Photo of Stormready Ceremony- In the image From left to right, David Williams, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, Dave Nicosia, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service Binghamton, Gene Dziak, Director Wyoming County Emergency Management Agency(EMA), and Deputy Director, Wyoming County EMA, Dave Carichner.
From left to right, David Williams, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, Dave Nicosia, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service Binghamton, Gene Dziak, Director Wyoming County Emergency Management Agency(EMA), and Deputy Director, Wyoming County EMA, Dave Carichner.

In a ceremony held in Tunkhannock, PA, Tuesday, August 17th, the National Weather Service recognized Wyoming County as StormReady. Warning Coordination Meteorlogist, David Nicosia presented a StormReady certificate and two StormReady road signs to Eugene Dziak, Director Wyoming County Emergency Management Agency, his Deputy, David Carichner, and Anthony Litwin, Chairman of the Wyoming County Commissioners. Dave Nicosia discussed the StormReady program and why it is so important for Wyoming County to have achieved this recognition. Wyoming County has endured an F2 and F3 tornado, a major flash flood, a blizzard, and a major river flood all in the past 10 years. Gene Dziak also commented on the importance of a strong partnership with the National Weather Service to protect their citizens from both natural and man-made disasters.

Wyoming County joins 24 other counties in Pennsylvania designated as StormReady and 766 other counties or communities nationwide.

StormReady is a nationwide community preparedness program that uses a grassroots approach to help communities develop plans to handle all types of severe weather from tornadoes to blizzards. The program encourages communities to take a new, proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations by providing emergency managers with clear-cut guidelines on how to improve their hazardous weather operations.

Specifically StormReady Counties have to meet the following criteria to achieve this recognition:

To be officially StormReady, a community must:
  • Establish a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center.
  • Have more than one way to receive severe weather warnings and forecasts and to alert the public
  • Create a system that monitors weather conditions locally.
  • Promote the importance of public readiness through community seminars.
  • Develop a formal hazardous weather plan, which includes training severe weather spotters and holding emergency exercises.
For more Information on the StormReady program, check out the following web site: http://www.stormready.noaa.gov
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