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We now have the ability to automatically send local area weather alert bulletins to e-mail and pagers! Click the pager image to learn more about our free weather alert e-mail and paging program! There is no cost to sign up! We send no ads! This is not a commercial operation. We can send Zone Forecast Products, Short Term Forecasts, and other longer bulletins to your e-mail, and thunderstorm and tornado watches and warnings, and spotter activation notices to your pager! Tell us what you want and sign up now! Brought to you as a free public service courtesy of the Alachua County EMWIN Project!

Click here to view the POWERPOINT PRESENTATION about the ALACHUA COUNTY EMWIN PROJECT that was shown at the Gainesville Amateur Radio Society meeting on Aug. 21, 2003. Choose from PowerPoint version (.PPT), or HTML version. Out grateful thanks to the Gainesville Amateur Radio Society for allowing us to give the presentation during their meeting.

TO ALL NEW SPOTTER MEMBERS! If you would like to join our E-mail Alert List and receive Alachua County SKYWARN-related news, as well as local area weather-related watches/warnings, and news about further upcoming Spotter Training classes, then sign up below!

What is Alachua Co. SKYWARN?

Alachua County SKYWARN is an organized system of trained local spotter volunteers operating under the NWS Severe Storm Reporting Networks program. "The fundamental objective of Severe Storm Reporting Networks is to provide timely and accurate reports of severe weather in support of the National Weather Service (NWS) Severe Local Storm Warning Program." (NWS Operations Manual, Part-B, Ch. 21, Para. 1) Alachua County SKYWARN spotters report severe weather-related events occuring within the county specifically to the Jacksonville Office (NWSO-JAX) of the National Weather Service, as well as to local Emergency Management, helping both to provide better weather watch and warning services to the public. (Counties in North Florida which are under the purview of the NWS-JAX County Warning Area (CWA) include: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Flagler, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Marion, Nassau, Putnam, St. Johns, Suwannee, and Union.)

[July 17th, 1997 at Whitney Mobile
Home Park. Damage to an aluminum
carport caused by the strong downward
winds of a microburst.] Alachua County SKYWARN plays host to both Basic and Advanced NWS Spotter Training sessions, which we've always tried to offer on a repeating six-month basis (or as is convenient for the NWS-JAX instructors). These classes are usually taught by NWS personnel. When sessions become scheduled they will appear in the SKYWARN Class Schedule.

As it exists at this time, Alachua County SKYWARN consists of mostly civilians, and a good number of hams. Though it gives you more capability, you don't have to have a radio at all in order to participate.

[August 2nd, 1997. A funnel
cloud look-a-like associated with a
gust front about a mile NNW of
Whitney Mobile Home Park. This isn't
altogether too fantastic but shows
how a spotter can be fooled by many
things in the sky which can LOOK like
something but that aren't.] The spotter's only real purpose is to LOOK UP, to verify whether a severe-level event is occuring, and to report what he or she sees, and no more. ANYONE may participate in SKYWARN. All you really need is to attend at least a Basic-level training class, and a telephone, or a cell phone, or some way of communicating what you see to either local Emergency Management and/or NWS-JAX. Alachua County SKYWARN has helped many hundreds of people get training in at least BASIC weather spotting over the years since we formed in 1997.

Alachua County SKYWARN's spotters includes civilians from all walks of life: doctors, dentists, farmers, lawyers, people in the military, police and fire/rescue workers, computer programmers, data entry operators, salesmen, teachers, students, local reporters from the Gainesville Sun, WUFT-TV NEWS 5, the Chief Meteorologist at WCJB/TV-20, and even an ex-hurricane hunter who used to fly aboard early Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft!

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Alachua County SKYWARN
E-mail: skywarn@afn.org
Phone: (352) 379-4911
Account Created: November 14, 1997.

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