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Read comments (2)To help educate the public on what to look for and when conditions are right for a tornado, a tornado spotters course will be conducted by the National Weather Service locally, according to Greene County Emergency Management Agency Director Roger Axe.
The course will be offered at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1 at the Greene County Cooperative Extension office meeting room at the fairgrounds.
"The tornado that stuck Bloomfield on Feb. 5th was a sobering reminder tornados do not just strike in the spring of the year and they can strike anywhere in Greene County." Axe said.
Meteorologist and amateur radio operator Logan Johnson will describe cloud and wind patterns associated with severe weather, how to interpret weather radar data, and how to remain safe dur-ing severe weathers.
"Awareness and preparedness are keys to safety. Volunteers monitoring the sky and reporting severe weather helps increase everyone's safety. This is even more important now since we are in the "traditional tornado season" until the end of June." Axe said.
The training session is free and open to the general public.
I don't think it was up to Roger. It was probably the NWS. Besides, what's wrong with skipping one town hall meeting? I would. I definately think this tornado spotter's course is very important. I've been to four or five of them now dating back to the early ninties and I learn something new every time.
Kind of hard to go to that meeting when there is a Bloomfield town council meeting that night. Roger should have coordinated with the town of Bloomfield first.