Thursday, May 6: Regular SKYWARN/ARES Meeting 7pm at the Courthouse

Saturday, June 26: University of Okoboji Campus Bike Ride - leaves Milford 9:00 a.m.

Saturday, July 17: University of Okoboji Marathon, Triathlon, 1/2 Marathon & 10K - 6am to Noon

SKYWARN^® is a volunteer program with nearly 290,000 trained severe weather spotters. These volunteers help keep their local communities safe by providing timely and accurate reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service.

Although SKYWARN^® spotters provide essential information for all types of weather hazards, the main responsibility of a SKYWARN^® spotter is to identify and describe severe local storms. In the average year, 10,000 severe thunderstorms, 5,000 floods and more than 1,000 tornadoes occur across the United States. These events threatened lives and property.

Since the program started in the 1970s, the information provided by SKYWARN^® spotters, coupled with Doppler radar technology, improved satellite and other data, has enabled NWS to issue more timely and accurate warnings for tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and flash floods.

SKYWARN^® storm spotters are part of the ranks of citizens who form the Nation's first line of defense against severe weather. There can be no finer reward than to know that their efforts have given communities the precious gift of time--seconds and minutes that can help save lives.

-- from weather.gov/skywarn