NOAA SPC: Multi-day Episode Of Severe Weather Expected Fri/Sat

 
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While the spring severe weather season has been relatively quiet thus far (see NOAA SPC chart below), it often doesn't really get started until March, and usually peaks in April and May. 

The Storm Prediction Center has issued an `Enhanced Risk' for severe weather across much of the Midwest and extending into the Southeast on Friday and Saturday.  While that forecast will be firmed up over the next 48 hours, for now they state:

I you haven't already, you should activate weather alerts on your cell phone, and have a NSWS weather radio as a backup. If you find yourself in a warned area, take it seriously, and seek shelter immediately.



For most Americans, a severe weather event is their biggest regional disaster threat; hurricanes, tornado outbreaks, blizzards, Derechos, and ice storms affect millions of people every year. Having a good (and well rehearsed) family emergency plan is essential for any disaster.

It is important for your plan to include emergency meeting places, out-of-state contacts, and individual wallet information cards - before you need it (see #NatlPrep : Create A Family Communications Plan).

Together with adequate emergency supplies, a solid first aid kit, emergency alerts on your cell phone or an emergency battery operated NWS Weather Radio, these steps will go a long ways to protecting you, and your family, from a wide variety of potential disasters.

As a Floridian who went through 2 hurricanes last fall, I am more than aware that we are only a couple of months from the start of the Atlantic Hurricane season - and while the worst storms aren't expected until late summer or early fall - I'm already reviewing my hurricane preps.

Because it's not a matter of `if' another disaster will strike . . .

It's only a matter of where, when, and how bad.