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Alabama Severe Weather Awareness Week
February 18-23, 2007


Fun Zone Skating Rink Montgomery, Alabama - November 15, 2006
In a matter of seconds...are you ready?

Governor Bob Riley has proclaimed February 18-23, 2007, as Severe Weather Awareness Week in Alabama. The National Weather Service, Alabama Emergency Management Agency, and other supporting organizations, ask your help in providing the public with information about severe weather safety. Advance planning and increased awareness will help residents of Alabama survive these deadly storms.

Educational activities will be held throughout the week to educate people in preventing injuries and deaths from tornadoes, damaging winds, flash floods, lightning, and hail. Each day of the week focuses on a specific type of severe weather or on the warning and drill system.

  Severe Weather Awareness Week Schedule
We'll focus on the SKYWARN Storm Spotter Program and Emergency Managers Weather Information System (EMWIN).
We'll look at Severe Thunderstorms to begin the work week. Damaging winds from severe thunderstorms are much more frequent than tornadoes in the Mid-South. These straight line winds can reach over 100 miles an hour and can be devastating.
We'll focus on lightning, one of the underrated killers. All thunderstorms have lightning, and this hazard can be deceptively deadly.
Tornado Safety will be the emphasis. Over and over again, people survive tornadic weather by knowing weather safety rules and taking appropriate and timely actions.
Thursday's focus is on the hazards of Flooding and Flash Flooding. Flooding is the number one weather killer in the United States.
NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards and Emergency Alert System Day. In place of the Tornado Drill of previous years, a special NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards weekly radio test will be conducted 9:30 AM. State, county, and other interested agencies are encouraged to participate and help everyone learn life saving procedures and information.

This the perfect time of the year to check your preparedness plans. Make sure your NOAA Weather Radio has fresh batteries in it. Make sure you have a means of receiving severe weather information. Make sure you know what you should do if threatening weather approaches.


Additional Information:
 from the 2007 Alabama Severe Weather Awareness Week Booklet
In Adobe PDF format (free download)

Front Cover - This year's theme..."In a matter of seconds...are you ready?"
Page 1 -  About Severe Weather Awareness Week
Page 2 -  Messages from the National Weather Service and Alabama EMA
Page 3 -  Remembering the Smithfield F5 Tornado
Page 4 -  2006 Severe Weather Review
Page 5 -  Severe Weather Awareness/Preparedness
Page 6 -  NOAA Weather Radio
Page 7 -  Thunderstorms
Page 8 -  Lightning
Page 9 -  Damaging Wind and Hail
Page 10 - Tornadoes
Page 11 - Flood Types
Page 12 - Flood Safety and Preparedness
Page 13 - Storm Spotters
Page 14 - Safety After the Storm
Page 15 - Chart: Tornadoes by Month and Hour in Alabama 1950-2006
Page 16 - Map: Tornadoes by County in Alabama 1950-2006
Page 17 - NWS on the Web
Page 18 - Contacts For More Information

Entire Document:

Severe Weather Awareness Week 2007 (~20.0 MB...It's a very large file...5 minute average download time on high speed connection)

Other Information
Alabama Tornado Database


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