NWS Sites and Documents for Storm Spotters
- NOAA Skywarn Spotter page
- NOAA Storm Spotter Guides
- National Weather Service “Spotter Handout”
- National Weather Service “Fort Worth Spotter Card”
- Skywarn Free Online Training Program
- Become a Storm Spotter From Home – nice link-list of storm spotter resources, with descriptions (with thanks to Amanda and Liam!)
Disaster Planning and Training Resources
Being an emergency amateur communicator is great — but we should all have basic emergency and disaster preparedness and response training, too! The following links will speed you on your way to lots of free study materials and info on the various disaster, emergency, and terrorism preparedness, training, and relief agencies and organizations.
Electro Magnetic Pulse “EMP” Training and Preparedness
The American Red Cross
- Main Page – follow the preparedness links therein.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
- FEMA– Main page
Become a Local Emergency Manager!
Download The CERT Training Manuals!
Citizen Corps
The umbrella organization that coordinates the efforts of many local and state volunteer emergency management, training, preparedness, and response agencies and organizations.
US Department of Homeland Security
US Department of Justice
The DOJ site is a great place for terrorism news releases!
Texas Division of Emergency Management
From the Texas DPS.