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The National Weather Service (NWS) in Indianapolis and its Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma rely upon volunteers to track and report severe weather events. Those volunteers sometimes include licensees in the Amateur Radio Service (ARS). Those licensees make up hundreds of discrete groups of volunteers. NWS cares not whether a licensee is affiliated with a particular group. What they care about is accurate and detailed reports from trained spotters who can provide the critical “eyes on the ground” data no

Central Indiana Skywarn, Inc. (CIS) is one such group, made up of many county-specific groups of ARS licensees and their repeater trustees. Their website, W9NWS.org, provides general guidelines for tracking and reporting storm events. Below is their statement, “How do we respond?” which has been standardized since 2012 and applies to the 39 counties of central Indiana covered by the NWS Indianapollis office.

“The Central Indiana SKYWARN Severe Weather Network is activated solely at the request of the Indianapolis NWS Office. Their request for spotter activation is based on information gathered from the Storm Prediction Center as well as local input from the Indianapolis NWS staff. The near real time information spotters provide is an essential piece of the total flow of information the NWS uses to determine whether a severe weather warning is issued. It is vital that the SKYWARN program strive to continuously i

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clarkcountyarc.org W9WWI CCARC
clarkcountyarc.com W9WWI CCARC
jenningscountyarc.org Jennings County Amateur Radio Association Inc.
w9wwi.org W9WWI CCARC