The featured presenter at our January 18th, 2025 WCARES Monthly meeting was Ryan Husted, National Weather Service Coordination Meteorologist in Nashville. Ryan has been with the NWS for over 16 years. His topic will interest all Skywarn enthusiasts: Severe Weather/Storm Forecasting in Middle Tennessee: Understanding the Watch and Warning process of the National Weather Service.
Special thanks to Paul Havlik (WD9IOK) who worked with NWS to schedule this presentation.
The Skywarn Recognition Day 2023 Operating Event is Saturday, December 2nd. The ARRL News contains a link to the NOAA website giving operating procedures, participant registration forms, maps, the logging sheet and other details: https://www.arrl.org/news/skywarn-recognition-day-is-ready-to-go
K4OHX will be activated with 2 operating positions – HF and a VHF/UHF station that will be manned for 24 hours. Stations may also operate from home – register yourself on the NWS SRD Map with your location as a Skywarn Spotter. If you’d like to sign up to work a shift at the NWS Nashville office, please do so here: https://form.jotform.com/233230949789167
The Skywarn Recognition Day 2023 Operating Event is Saturday, December 2nd. The ARRL News contains a link to the NOAA website giving operating procedures, participant registration forms, maps, the logging sheet and other details:https://www.arrl.org/news/skywarn-recognition-day-is-ready-to-go
K4OHX will be activated with 2 operating positions – HF and a VHF/UHF station that will be manned for 24 hours. Stations may also operate from home – register yourself on the NWS SRD Map with your location as a Skywarn Spotter. If you’d like to sign up to work a shift at the NWS Nashville office, please do so here:https://form.jotform.com/233230949789167
Skywarn™ Recognition Day was developed in 1999 by the National Weather Service and the American Radio Relay League. It celebrates the contributions that Skywarn™ volunteers make to the NWS mission, the protection of life and property.
Amateur radio operators comprise a large percentage of the Skywarn™ volunteers across the country. The Amateur radio operators also provide vital communication between the NWS and emergency management if normal communications become inoperative.
All Skywarn™ spotters provide critical weather information before, during and after adverse weather strikes. This includes reports of rain and snow, ice and wind, storms and tornadoes, flooding and fire. This is our 24 hours to recognize all of the Skywarn™ spotters serving our nation!
Unfortunately, there won’t be SWAD this year, but in its place, starting Sunday, February 28th, the National Weather Service offices that serve Tennessee will be conducting Severe Weather Awareness Week 2021. Each day, a new topic will be covered by way of online presentations. You will be able to register for any or all of the FREE classes that will be offered during the week.
Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Nashville TN
352 PM CST Wed Dec 30 2020
…All NOAA Weather Radio Transmitters are Back On the Air…
All NOAA Weather Radios transmitters across Middle Tennessee are now
back on the air.
Thank you for your patience. We apologize for any inconvenience
this outage may have caused.
$$
Shamburger
Note: you can find links to NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio information including Public Information Statements here: https://wcares.org/noaa-weather-radio/
From Faith Borden at OHX, during the morning briefing:
These NOAA weather radio frequencies are on the air: Nashville (162.550), Lawrenceburg (162.425), Spencer (162.450), and a fourth whose name was not given. Restoring the systems used for transmitting wx information are lower priority for AT&T than other services. No severe weather is expected the next few days.
Note: current NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) status including outages: https://www.weather.gov/nwr/outages Note: a page with NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) links is available here, under Frequencies and Nets.
