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Severe Weather Across the Ohio Valley and into the Mid Atlantic; Prolonged Heat in the Southern Plains

Scattered damaging winds and a couple tornadoes are possible on Saturday from parts of Ohio into northern West Virginia/Maryland, central and western Pennsylvania, and western New York. The thunderstorm threat will move into the Northeast on Sunday. Prolonged heat will continue across the Southern Plains this weekend and into next week. Read More >

NOAA/NWS Spot Training Materials

***Reminder on Spot Forecast Policy - The Spot Forecast Page may only be used for official purposes under the governing SPOT policy, which can be found at https://weather.gov/media/directives/010_pdfs/pd01004001curr.pdf.***

The new URL for SPOT is https://spot.weather.gov/

Information and Upcoming Webinar about the new page can be found here

New Spot Page Training Videos

How to use the Spot Monitor Page: SpotMonitorPage.mp4

How to submit a Spot Forecast: SpotRequestANewSpot.mp4

Backup Google Form Spot Request Training*

*Only used for backup if the Spot Forecast Page is not functioning. Please check with your supporting forecast office to confirm support of this feature.

To fill out the Google Form as a Spot Forecast request backup option, watch the video below. To find your local weather forecast office you can click on the map at https://www.weather.gov/ nearest your location. It will then provide you with the office servicing that area.

How to use the Google Form Request Page: SpotGoogleFormTrainingVideo.mp4

General Notes:

Please be as specific as possible when requesting a SPOT.

If there are any issues with your SPOT request or receipt please find your local office using the map on weather.gov and give the office a call.

When first arriving at https://spot.weather.gov/ you will see the SPOT Monitor. For more information on navigating the page, watch the How to Use the Spot Monitor Page video above.

To submit a request click on New Request. Watch the “How to Submit a Spot Forecast” Video to learn more.

Feedback is welcome at nws.webfeedback@noaa.gov

New Page Known Issues:

Future Forecasts is a newer feature to the new SPOT site and times need to be set correctly in the future for the same incident. Feedback is welcome about this feature to nws.webfeedback@noaa.gov

The SPOT monitor cannot be currently filtered to only show requests for a specific office - the national view will always show when arriving at the SPOT monitor page.

Editing a forecast via the link sent to your email will result in fields for forecast/delivery times not being retained.

Clicking on the map multiple times will result in markers for past clicks being retained.

Map Markers are not displaying the correct color on the SPOT Monitor page.

Decimal Points in weather elements are not currently able to be used.

There is no Plot button for decimal degrees of latitude and longitude, but whatever is entered into that box will be used.

Relative humidity (RH) must be input into observations to display to the NWS. The Spot request page will not calculate RH based on other inputs automatically (i.e. if the requestor enters Temperature and Dewpoint in an observation, RH will NOT be calculated automatically)..

The map is squished in the display.