UNC Asheville to Offer Free Storm Spotter Training Course on April 21

UNC Asheville‘s Department of Atmospheric Sciences will host a basic Skywarn storm-spotter training course at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, at UNC Asheville’s Robinson Hall, room 125. Thomas Winesett of the Greenville-Spartanburg National Weather Service Forecast Office will lead the two-hour course. Representatives from emergency response agencies, amateur radio operators, and interested weather watchers are encouraged to attend. The event is free and open to the public.

Skywarn storm spotter volunteers provide timely and accurate reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service. Storm spotters provide essential information for all types of weather hazards, though their main responsibility is to identify and describe severe local storms.

The basic Skywarn course will discuss techniques and safety for severe weather spotting. Those with any level of knowledge and experience with meteorology are welcome.

For more information, contact Christopher Godfrey, UNC Asheville professor and chair of Atmospheric Sciences, at 828.232.5160 or cgodfrey@unca.edu.

Please note visitors must register their vehicles and obtain a permit through the UNC Asheville parking website in order to be in compliance with parking policy that will be enforced 24/7/365. Find out more about visitor parking fees at the University’s visitor parking permit website.

About UNC Asheville

Founded in 1927, UNC Asheville is a proud member of the University of North Carolina System. With award-winning faculty, small class sizes, and 90+ academic programs in the natural sciences, human sciences, humanities, arts, and social sciences, the University is recognized for its robust paid internship programs to prepare students to immediately enter the workforce. In the US News & World Report 2025 edition of Best Colleges, UNC Asheville is ranked No. #9 in Top Public Schools, and No. #7 in Princeton Review’s 2025 Top 50 Guide to Green Colleges. Known as the Bulldogs, UNC Asheville student-athletes compete in 16 NCAA Division I Teams in the Big South Conference. For more information, please visit: www.unca.edu.