National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

National Weather Service Brochures

• Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Lightning  pdf version    text version
• Tornadoes
• Safe Boating Weather Tips
• Flash Floods
• Heat Wave   pdf version   text version
• Winter Weather
• Hurricanes
• Climate Change

Weather Safety
Links to NOAA's website about weather safety.

• Lightning
• Hurricanes
• Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Floods
• Rip Currents
• Winter

For Kids

Enter Owlie Skywarns Homepage Owlie teaches about the hazards of severe weather which include tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes, flash floods and winter storms National Severe Storms Laboratory Weather Room Playtime for Kids - NWS page For Kid's Only - a site from NASA NOAA's Education F.E.M.A. for Kids Weather Games Making a Weather Station EPA Climate Change Kids Site Educational Graphics on Global Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect

Reference

• Weather Safety Guide for Schools  pdf file  
  by Jennifer Schuller, August 2008
• Jetstream
  The National Weather Service Southern Region Weather School. This site is designed to help educators, emergency managers, or anyone interested in learning about weather.
• Weather Education - from NWS Headquarters
• Guide to Contractions
• Government directory for Natural Sciences
• Enhanced Fujita Scale
• Weather Terms and Terminology
• Education Materials - from the Climate Prediction Center
• NOAA Photo Library