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WHY DO YOU NEED SKYWARN IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND?

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These pictures provided by George and Susan Smith of Westport, Massachusetts, relatives of K1IBR-Bill Miller show why. This very scary scene on Wednesday Afternoon August 6th, 1997 at around 2:15 PM shows a funnel cloud that touched down briefly as a weak F0 tornado causing the tree tops to be broken across an uninhabited area in the Drift Road section of Westport. Doppler Radar did not detect it, but several spotters in the Wesport area phoned in and reported via amateur radio, this feature as a funnel cloud. If it were not for SKYWARN spotters, this feature may have gone undetected. How do you get involved in SKYWARN? The following internal and external SKYWARN links show you how to get involved:

Introduction to SKYWARN

Latest Previaling Winds SKYWARN Newsletter

Q1'1998 SKYWARN Meeting Pictures

Latest SKYWARN Training/Hurricane Workshop Schedule from NWS Taunton

SKYWARN Newsletter Archive

SKYWARN Frequencies in Southern New England

SKYWARN Weather Center

Links to many SKYWARN and WX sites on the internet



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