The National Weather Service in Birmingham requests ALERT activation from now until 9pm CST.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham requests ALERT activation from now until 9pm CST.
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Hi everyone,
Tonight, May 12, the annual elections were held for ALERT.
Your Officers for 2009 – 2010 are:
President: Mark Wells – WD4NYL
Vice-President: Russell Thomas – KV4S
Operations: Ron Arant – N4PHP
Treasurer: Ed Pitchford – KD4AY
Membership: Russell Thomas – KV4S
NWS Liaison: Nathan Jones – WX4NLJ
Secretary: Steven Moss – KB4FKN
Training: Howard Moss – KC4QJA
Public Information: John Miller – KI4VVM
Additionally, we recognize that our Spotterchat is a unique resource that members at home can and should play an active part in, even when there is no “official” callout.
As spotterchat grows we must be able to conduct it’s operations in an effecient, coordinated and controlled manner.
To fill this growing need Ed Manley — W4AGA has been appointed as our Spotterchat Coordinator.
He will be in charge of coordinating ALERT’s response and coverage on the Spotterchat & in developing ways to better utilize this vital resource.
I want to congratulate our officers. I think our best year is just around the corner.
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The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009.
If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.
Please Note: this meeting is officer elections night. voting is only allowed in person and not via teleconference.
Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate: Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083.The next ALERT meeting will be at the National Weather Service at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009. If you are not able to make the meeting in person try the teleconference.Please Note: this meeting is officer elections night. voting is only allowed in person and not via teleconference.
Every effort will be made to have teleconferencing available for each meeting, to participate: Please call: (877) 951-0997 and enter participants code 741083. Continue reading
Hi Everyone,
Yesterday, May 7, the Alabama Dept of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Alabama Amateur Radio Emergency Service held a statewide Hurricane Drill.
ALERT & K4NWS was active from 8:45 to 2:30 in the drill, with Myself & Teresa Wells KQ4JC taking simulated storm reports from the Shelby County Net, Birmingham Net, State EMA and others. The Spotterchat was continuously monitored as was D-Star.
A serious concern which we had leading into the drill was that we might encounter “real world” severe weather & have to suspend our portion of the drill.
This scenario began to become a reality within an hour of operations as flooding reports began coming in from Montgomery and Elmore County.
For a portion of the drill we did double duty taking simulated reports and “real life” reports, but, as the situation deteriorated we went into actual “callout mode”.
The Montgomery area received measured rainfall in excess of 9 inches within a few hours time, as storms initiated over Metropolitan Montgomery and moved southward, with new storms continuously backbuiled over the same location for hours on end.Some reports included: Continue reading
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