The Pike County Office of Emergency Management will assist the National Weather Service in holding a Skywarn Storm Spotter training on Thursday, April 11th at 5 p.m. Coordinator Hesston Teel says the training will be held at the sheriff’s department courtroom, located at 305 Industrial Park Drive in Murfreesboro. The class is free and open to everyone.
SKYWARN® is a National Weather Service (NWS) program developed in the 1960s that consists of trained weather spotters who provide reports of severe and hazardous weather to help meteorologists make life-saving warning decisions. Spotters are concerned citizens, amateur radio operators, truck drivers, mariners, airplane pilots, emergency management personnel, and public safety officials who volunteer their time and energy to report on hazardous weather impacting their community.