Some of you who live in Kansas and Missouri or who keep track of severe weather in the area may remember hearing the terms "catastrophic damage" in Tornado Warnings last year, after almost never hearing that kind of terminology in warnings in the past. If you don't, the NWS was experimenting with impact based warnings, that gave a description of possible damage and human impacts of the storm. (ex. "considerable damage"; "tornado...observed"; etc.) This was with the intent of pushing across the urgency of situations, improving the communication of this information, and allow the NWS to express a level of confidence in the potential impacts. This year, the NWS will expand this to include the entire Central Region service area, which consists of 38 of the NWS offices.
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Also, I encourage people who are interested in becoming a storm spotter, check your local NWS website, as many offices are currently in the process of doing spotter classes in their coverage area or about to start.
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