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

Follow the links below for safety and preparedness information on each topic:

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As part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, Thursday is Tornado Drill Day. For more on how the day will play out, the National Weather Service has a timeline you can look over.

Many people don’t take this exercise seriously, but it’s a good one. If you don’t participate in it, make sure you have a plan of action ready to go when/if life-threatening severe weather strikes – whether you’re at work, school, home, wherever.

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To get you ready for severe weather season, and in light of this week being Severe Weather Awareness Week in Iowa (April 19-23 for Minnesota and Wisconsin!), we have a new severe weather awareness section on our blog. Check it out! Just another way to help you prepare for this year’s severe weather.

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