ALPINE, Texas — The final Skywarn Training meeting happened in the Animal Science Building at Sul Ross State University in Alpine on Tuesday.
According to NewsWest 9 Chief Meteorologist Jordan Frazier, there was a massive turnout at the meeting and people got to learn more about weather and how to spot it.
"Being able to see the tracking on the radar and be able to see where everything's coming and how it accumulates and how stuff starts building up helps us greatly identify what we can do to send the information back to the National Weather Service," said James Etchison, EM coordinator for Brewster County.
Frazier said not only is learning more information about severe weather important, it is also extremely valuable when you have people like yourself sending in data to NewsWest 9 and checking out more of these classes as they take place every year.
"But we try a new thing this year, which was talking a little bit more about safety rather than just the typical severe weather stuff that you're gonna see out here and really what to identify, which has been the traditional skyward class in the past," said Sam Zuber, meteorologist for the National Weather Service of Midland. "This year we decided to do a little bit more safety because we are done and feedback on 'OK well now that I know how do I identify the severe weather thread? What am I supposed to do?'"
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