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...PLEASE JOIN US ON THE CENTRAL CAROLINA SKYWARN INFORMATION NET, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 9:15PM, 146.88 REPEATER; PROGRAM - "NATIONAL WEATHER ASSOCIATION" WITH EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT RUTH AIKEN KI4ZCW; JIM MCRIGHT KB4BZ WILL SERVE AS NET CONTROL WX4NC...




HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
510 AM EDT SUN JUL 6 2008

PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-
ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE-
JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON-
RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON-
451 AM EDT SUN JUL 6 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING... CONTINUING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. WITH A
WARM MOIST AIR MASS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION... AN ISOLATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. THESE CONDITIONS COULD ALSO LEAD
TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL... WHICH WILL IN TURN LEAD TO THE
LIKELIHOOD OF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...
ESPECIALLY THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN OVER
THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK
AS THE WARM MOIST AIR MASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION. SOME
OF THE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS ON TUESDAY WITH THE MAIN
THREAT BEING ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SEVERE HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY AT THIS TIME HOWEVER
SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO STAY TUNED AND REPORT ANY SEVERE
WEATHER.





HERE COMES SECOND TROPICAL STORM OF THE SEASON - BERTHA!





To view the lastest public advisory on Bertha, please click here.




SPOTTER PHOTOS OF SEVERE WEATHER


Central Carolina SKYWARN welcomes your photos of severe weather and damage taken in any CCS county (Chatham, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Nash, Person, Orange, Sampson, Vance, Wake, Wayne, Warren, Wilson).  Please email photos to Emergency Coordinator Virginia Enzor at nc4va@nc.rr.com; don't forget to include a brief description, the location of the event, the date and time of the event, and the name of the photographer.  Your photo may be posted to the SKYWARN website, featured in a newsletter, or used in a PowerPoint training presentation. Credit will be given to the photographer. The photo below was taken by spotter Rob Rousseau KI4BKE of Holly Springs on May 20, 2008 at about 5:20PM; the location was Rouse Road and Oliver Creek Parkway.  It depicts the range in size of hail that fell at his location; he wisely included coins for size comparison.







NOAA PREDICTS NEAR OR ABOVE NORMAL ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON FOR 2008




For the full story, please click
here.




HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS WEEK 2008


Hurricane Preparedness Week is May 25-31, 2008; the week is designed to make the public aware of hurricane hazards and the actions to take to reduce danger to life and property. Hurricane hazards come in the forms of storm surge, high winds, tornadoes and flooding. Do you have a plan that addresses all the hazards relevant to your locale?  The National Hurricane Center has prepared topic for each day this week to help you prepare.
To learn about historical tropical cyclones occurring in different areas located throughout the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico, please visit the NOAA Coastal Services Center Historical Hurricane Tracks website by clicking here . This website provides information about U.S. coastal county population and hurricane strikes as well as links to Internet resources on tropical cyclones. The interactive mapping application allows you to search the National Hurricane Center historical tropical cyclone database and graphically display storms affecting your locale since 1851.

For a tropical cyclone tutorial from Jetstream, please click here.

To visit the NC State Emergency Preparedness website, please click here.

To view a future worst case scenario of hurricane disaster for North Carolina in powerpoint format, please click here.  This powerpoint presentation, entitled "NC's Katrina",  was created by Raleigh NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist Jeff Orrock.




GRAPHICAL TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK


This National Hurricane Center product allows the viewer to quickly see any areas in the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico that NHC is watching for possible development.  This product updates at approximately 2AM, 8AM, 2PM and 8PM daily.   For more information, please visit Atlantic Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook .








UPCOMING PROGRAMS ON CCS INFORMATION NETS


June 3 - "2008 Severe Weather" with Warning Coordination Meteorologist Jeff Orrock KI4KKX.   Please click here to view the accompanying PowerPoint presentation. Should you need a PowerPoint viewer, one is available at PowerPoint Viewer.

June 24 - "Lightning Safety and Lightning Survivor Stories" with CCS Emergency Coordinator Virginia Enzor NC4VA; Lightning Safety Awareness Week, June 22-28.  

July 8 - "National Weather Association" with NWA Executive Assistant Ruth Aiken KI4ZCW.

July 22 - "Drought Update" with NWS Hydrologist Mike Moneypenny.

July 29 - "RDU Terminal Dopplar Radar, etc" with Raleigh NWS Meteorologist-in-Charge Darin Figurskey KC2IPY.  Please check back later for accompanying PowerPoint presentation.

Please join us each Tuesday at 9:15PM on the 146.88 repeater for the CCS Information Net. On each net there are announcements, check-ins by county, and often a program or training spot. If there is a program topic you would like to suggest for consideration, please send an email to CCS EC Virginia Enzor at nc4va@nc.rr.com.




UPCOMING EVENTS (All Open to the Public)

Thursday, June 19 - Basic SKYWARN Spotter Training with Radar Basics, 7-9PM, Public Safety Services Bldg, Johnston Community College, Room J1630, 245 College Rd., Smithfield, NC.

Tuesday, June 24 -  
Basic SKYWARN Spotter Training with Radar Basics, 7-9PM,  County Administration Building, Gordon Wicker Room, 106 Hillcrest Drive, Sanford, NC, Lee County.

Thursday, August 14 - Basic SKYWARN Spotter Training, 7-9PM, Cary Fire Station #1, 1501 N. Harrison Avenue, Cary, NC.





SPRING EDITION OF CHANGING SKIES OUT


The Raleigh National Weather Service publishes its newsletter "Changing Skies" three times a year; it covers items of interest to emergency managers, weather spotters and others. The latest edition can be seen by clicking here.




FLOOD SAFETY AWARENESS WEEK

Flood Safety Awareness Week is March 17-20, 2008. To better prepare you for how floods occur, the hazards associated with flooding, and some ways you can protect life and property, the National Weather Service has prepared a topic of interest for Monday-Friday. Topcis include the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS), Turn Around Don't Drown, Floods and Droughts, Flood Insurance, and Flood Safety. To access this information, please visit the Flood Safety Awareness webpage. To view flooding locations in real time, please click here.





NOAA ALL HAZARDS RADIO NOW ON LINE

To hear your local station, please click here.




SEVERE WEATHER AWARENESS WEEK

March 2-8 is Severe Weather Awareness Week! To better prepare you for the adversities of severe weather, the National Weather Service has prepared a topic of interest for Monday-Friday. To access this information, please click on the appropriate link below.
The statewide tornado drill is scheduled for Wednesday, March 5, at 9:30AM.





NEW BACK-UP FREQUENCY ADDED


Central Carolina SKYWARN is pleased to announce that it will use the K4ITL 147.135 repeater [tone of 82.5] located in Chapel Hill as a secondary back-up in the event of the 146.88 should not be available for use. The primary back-up remains the K4ITL 147.105 repeater [tone on 82.5] in Broadway; the third back-up will be WB4TQD 145.39 repeater [tone of 82.5] in southern Raleigh. The fourth back-up will be the Carolina 440 Link System. Those frequencies can be found at www.carolina440.net. Thanks goes to Danny Hampton K4ITL for the addition of the Chapel Hill repeater! We will have a "Radio Check Night" on Tuesday, November 20, so program your radios with this frequency and join us on the net at 9:15pm!




CoCoRaHS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED


CoCoRaHS is a new  program for voluneteer weather observers that began September 1 in North Carolina.  Participants measure precipitation daily and enter their reports online.  Users of the data include the National Weather Service, hydrologists, emergency managers, city utilities (water supply, water conservation, storm water), insurance adjusters, USDA, engineers, teachers, and more.  Training is availiable online at the CoCoRaHS website.  To learn more, please visit www.cocorahs.org





NEW CLOUD CHART AVAILABLE


NOAA has released a new cloud chart; to access it, please click here .





READER'S CHOICE LIST OF WEATHER BOOKS BY NWS LEAD FORECASTER ROD GONSKI
Summary of Recommendations from July 10, 2007 CCS Net

1.  The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather by David McWilliams Ludlum, National Audubon Society (Rod describes this publication as a "must-have" reference book!)
2.  Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson; non-fiction
3.  Storm Watchers: The Turbulent History of Prediction from Franklin's Kite to El Nino by John D. Cox of MIT  
4.  North Carolina's Hurricane History by Jay Barnes - This publication provides perspective from the Colonial Era through modern times.
5.  How the Weather Works: 100 Ways Parents and Kids Can Share the Secrets of the Atmosphere by Michael Allaby, Reader's Digest
6.  The Handy Weather Answer Book by Walter A. Lyons (Good reference and trivia book)
7.  Hands-on Meteorology: Stories, Theories, and Simple Experiments by Zbigniew Sorbjan
8.  North Carolina Weather and Climate by Peter J. Robinson
9.  The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome by Jim Carrier; non-fiction
10. Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm by Thomas P. Grazulis
11. The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin; non-fiction




LIGHTNING SAFETY WEEK - JUNE 24-30, 2007

Summer is prime time for one of nature's deadliest weather phenomena  - lightning! Lightning causes an average of 80 fatalilties and 300 injuries each year across the United States.  For more information about how to protect yourself from this hazard, please visit here.



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Skywarn Net Frequencies 146.88 MHz (Main)
147.105 MHz [82.5 Hz] (Backup)
147.135 MHz [82.5] (Second Backup)
145.390 MHz [82.5 Hz] (Third Backup)
Carolina 440 UHF Link System  (Fourth Backup)

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