Southwest California SKYWARN is an all volunteer organization that supports the National Weather Service Forecast Office in San Diego, California. It's service region covers the following Areas: San Diego, Orange, Western Riverside and Southwest San Bernardino Counties.

Southwest California SKYWARN is a separate entity from and operates at the request of the National Weather Service, and in no way represents the National Weather Service, its staff, products or services.

Current Information

01-16-2010:

Report Weather Event is OPERATIONAL.

The REPORT WEATHER EVENT link was tested today by the webmaster and it confirmed message being sent.

Stay sharp and safe.

 

 

 

SW CA SKYWARN IS NOW HOSTING A NEW

PAGE!

SW Skywarn is stepping up to support NWS with our online spotter reporting system. It will be hosted on this website and will be maintained by SW Skywarn as our own system. This new system will replace espotter. It will also improve many reporting details, such as:

* Spotters will have a much more user-friendly report form

* No registration, user ID, nor password (with the annoying mandated change every 60 days!) will be required for use

* The page will actually have technical support, unlike with espotter

The forecasters will enjoy:

*Each report gets automatically alarmed to forecaster workstations

*Each report automatically gets added to our spotter report log for archiving

*The absence of all the glitches, headaches, and lack of support of espotter (too numerous to enumerate)

*Ease of compiling the Local Storm Report (LSR) products

Here are the instructions for use:

* Simply click on the REPORT WEATHER EVENT link in the menu to the left of each SW SKYWARN website. It will take you to http://swskywarn.org/ReportWeather.php

* To enter your report, please follow these instructions:

1. Enter your Latitude, Longitude, and Elevation if known, but they are not mandatory for your report to be accepted.

2. Enter your Email address (Required). This will be useful if we wish to contact you for further information.

3. Enter your Spotter ID, if applicable.

4. Pull-down windows will allow you to enter your location and specific Weather Elements. Press down 'Ctrl' to select multiple Weather Elements.

5. Enter a detailed description.(Required - please include the time of your observation; it is very important to us).

6. Submit and confirm your report. Your report will be sent to Weather Forecast Office within minutes.

* These instructions are also linked at the top of the report form for your convenience.

* A confirmation email will be sent to the spotter following each submitted report

* If the system for some reason fails, there is a message that states "if you do not receive a confirmation email within five minutes, please call the NWS on their spotter number". If this happens, please call NWS with the report and then click on the problem link so that we can attend to the problem! There is also a link on the REPORT WEATHER EVENT page (just below the "Submit" button to report problems to the SW SKYWARN Webmaster.

The new reporting system works now! With the upcoming wet weather, please review the reporting criteria and enjoy the new system. Thanks for your continued spotter support.

 

Thanks and 73,

Steve Smith, WB6TWL

SW SKYWARN Webmaster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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