The Hurricane Watch Net is activated to support the NOAA National Hurricane Center. The net can be found at 14.235 MHz. Please feel free to listen, but don't transmit unless you have pertinent information to report or are needed to help relay traffic. The Hurrican Watch Net web site can be found at www.hwn.org.

The NWS is looking for reports of NOAA weather radio transmitter problems.

If you have a problem with the NWR Transmitter that serves your area, please call 1-888-886-1227 or email us at: nwroutage@noaa.gov

When reporting a transmitter problem (i.e., Dead Air, Broadcast Quality, Severe Static, etc.), please provide as much of the following information as possible:

• Transmitter call sign
• Transmitter location
• Date
• Time
• Problem
• Your receiver type (make & model)
• Your name
• Email address for follow up

Here are the presentations from the 2008 Severe Weather Symposium.

Presentations from the Symposium have been posted here.

2008 brings the next installment of the Central Indiana Severe Weather Symposium, an all day session geared towards providing more advanced information for severe weather spotters.

The 2008 symposium will be held on Saturday, March 1st, 2008, from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, at the Valle Vista Conference Center, 755 E. Main St., Greenwood, Indiana, and is co-sponsored by the Central Indiana Chapter of the American Meteorological Society and National Weather Service Indianapolis.

The Indianapolis NWS will be conducting "spotter talks", also known as basic spotter training, at various sites in the area. Several sessions have been scheduled already and are being announced on various nets and web sites. The official list of spotter talks will be maintained by the NWS staff and can be found here.