NWS Louisville Spotter Training
Spotter Presentation Details
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Additional online courses are available via the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) COMET Program. Like the NWS Louisville online modules, these courses can be completed at your own pace, and serve as an excellent supplement to training offered by the NWS.
Additional Storm Spotter resource information:
Class Schedule
Skywarn Spotter Training for 2024 will be available in-person, or virtually. The multimedia presentation is geared toward the Ohio Valley, and contains information about identifying/reporting severe weather, severe weather safety, severe weather climatology, thunderstorm types and threats, and more. Instructors for both formats are NWS Meteorologists.
In-Person Spotter Training
Skywarn training "in-person" runs approximately 90 minutes, and is open to the public, and free of charge. In-person spotter training will be listed here whenever a class is scheduled.
Webinar Spotter Presentation Details - It's Simple to View a Webinar!
A shorter version of the "in-person" presentation! If you can't make one of the classes presented by NWS Louisville, you can attend a webinar presented by one of our neighboring offices. You'll see our and our neighbors' webinars in the list below.
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Advanced Spotter Training
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Self Guided Online Modules
NWS Louisville has developed an online version of its Skywarn Spotter Training, tailored to the unique challenges of severe storm spotting in the Ohio Valley. There are 4 video modules, with a quiz covering each module. The quizzes must be completed in order because you'll need the code word that you get for completing one in order to access the next.
Once you've reviewed each module, complete the quiz. You will receive an e-mail with your results shortly after you complete the quiz. If you answer ALL questions correctly, your e-mail will include the code word that you will need to access the next quiz.
After all 4 quizzes are successfully completed, you'll receive a link to register in the NWS Louisville spotter database.