This week is Severe Weather Awareness Week for Minnesota and Wisconsin and as in years past, each day will feature a severe weather topic and some tips that can help you prepare for dangerous weather this season. The National Weather Service has a special website that covers the entire week’s agenda and has links to other sources of thunderstorm and tornado information. Thursday the 19th will be Tornado Drill Day where both states involved will have statewide tornado drills with an additional evening session for some counties that elect to have an extra round of practice to give families a chance to run through their severe weather action plans. Here’s some more information from the NWS’s Severe Weather Awareness Week website:
Severe Weather Awareness Weeks
| STATE | DATE | Tornado Drill Day |
| Iowa | April 2-6, 2012 | April 4 (10:20 a.m.) – Using live TOR EAS Code |
| Minnesota | April 16-20, 2012 | April19 (1:45 p.m. and 6:55 p.m.) – Using live TOR EAS Code |
| Wisconsin | April 16-20, 2012 | April 19 (1:45 p.m.) – Using live TOR EAS Code |
Follow the links below for safety and preparedness information on each topic:
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Winter Storms |
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This post was written by tschmidt on April 16, 2012
