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Severe Weather Watcher Handbook
Safety Tips Credits
HOW TO CALL IN YOUR REPORT
TELL US...
- Your name
- Where are you calling from?
- What are you reporting? (hail, flooding, any damage, tornado, funnel cloud,
other)
- Provide any measurements
- Where is it in relation to your location what direction, how far?
- What direction is it moving?
- How fast is it moving?
- When did it occur?
- How long did event last?
- Is it still occuring?
When you call in a report it is very important that you speak plainly, relate
the details precisely and accurately and answer any questions you are asked
as precisely as you can. In as every weather emergency speed and accuracy can
save both you and the public from harm. Remember to take all necessary precautions
for your own safety (see inside back cover), and to alert the authorities if
emergency help is needed.
SAMPLE REPORT
This is Hank Harley calling from Whoville. I have just sighted a funnel cloud
in a storm about 5 kilometers to my north. It was visible for 2 minutes at 5:36,
but seems to be disappearing now. The storm is moving from the southwest at
about 50 km/h and was accompanied by high winds and small, pea-sized hail. I
didn't see any damage.
EVENT
hail |
REPORT... 2 cm dia. and
larger hail damage |
INCLUDE...
time hail began and ended depth if covering ground signs of damage, eg:
flattened crops broken windoes, dented cars. |
| wind damage |
90 km/h or higher |
moderate or severe structural
damage uprooted trees, time wind surge hit, direction and duration |
| flooding rain |
25-50 mm in 1 hr causing flooding |
roads/fields under water,
overflowing creaks/ditches, mudslides near-zero visibility during cloudburst
|
tornado/
funnel |
all sightings |
time seen, description of
size, distance away, direction of movement if no funnel, debris rising was
the tornado funnel shrinking or enlarging? was it accompanied by sound?
hail? +damage? tornado damage discovered in absence of sighted tornado or
after the event has passed |
rotating cloud
under storm |
all sightings |
time seen, size of lowering,
where was it relative to main part of the storm? |
| roaring sound |
all occurances |
time, direction, prevailing
sky conditions |
unusual sightings
other events
(year-round) |
all occurances |
waterspouts, large dust devils,
etc. damaging wind, blizzard/snowqualls/fog with near-zero visibility, freezing
rain. |
Safety Tips TOP Credits
Created :
2002-08-26
Modified :
2002-12-31
Reviewed :
2002-12-31
Url of this page : http://www.msc.ec.gc.ca
/education/severe_weather/report_e.cfm
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Environment Canada's World Wide Web Site.
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