
	Tri-State Skywarn Program

Last Updated ... 07 September 2002

Spotter Reporting:

We value your severe weather spotting and appreciate your timely reports. Reports can be made from any location: home, work, school, on the road. However, we request that you spot safely...please don’t risk injury (or worse) to provide us with your information. Please relay your reports as soon as it is safe to do so.

The various severe weather reporting criteria that we would like you to use are listed at the links that follow. We have split the criteria into warm season (i.e. thunderstorms) and cool season (i.e. winter) lists.

There are a number of means in which to relay your report to the NWS.

Amateur Radio

Local coordinators or net controllers will collect and consolidate reports and forward them to the NWS via ham radio, e-mail, phone or fax.

E-Mail

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/okx/report.html

Fill in the necessary information and submit.

If you forget your spotter identification number, you can still use this form to submit a report...just select "No" for Skywarn Spotter.

You may also e-mail your reports directly to okx.spotters@noaa.gov.

Telephone ... call the 800 number you were given during spotter training.

Please give only the following if you call as we may be extremely busy...

Location
Severe weather observation
Actual time that the event occurred.

This is the preferred method for reports of tornadoes, extremely high winds or widespread damage, or weather-related injuries or deaths.

Fax ... (631) 924-0519
Please provide the following information at a minimum...

Identification (name and/or spotter ID), location, severe weather observation, actual time that the event occurred.

Your report will be used for our severe weather verification, Local Storm Reports (during severe weather events) and Public Information Statements (during non-severe weather).