Severe Weather Preparedness Resources

Links to severe weather and disaster preparedness resources

The best advice is to ALWAYS be prepared for severe weather conditions in your area. While the media does an excellent job of making us aware of threatening weather, night time leaves all of us at our most vunerable. The best way to protect yourself and your family at night is to own and maintain an NOAA Weather Radio Receiver. These inexpensive radio receivers will alert you to approaching severe weather and other hazards - even at night.

• Are You Ready for a Thunderstorm? Here's what you can do to prepare yourself and your family. From NOAA.
• Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, and Lightning (pdf) A preparedness guide including tornado safety information for schools. From NOAA.
• Red Cross Safe & Well List If you have been affected by a disaster, this website provides a way for you to register yourself as "safe and well". From the American Read Cross.
• Thunderstorms! Severe weather safety quick facts from StormStudy.com
• Residential Safe Rooms How to build a "Safe Room" for your home. From FEMA.
• Facts About Thunderstorms and Lightning Thunderstorm Factsheet from FEMA.
• Thunderstorm Terms Know your thunderstorm terms. FEMA
• What to do BEFORE a Thunderstorm Severe weather preparations you can do to help protect your life and property. FEMA
• What to do DURING a Thunderstorm FEMA

• When Lightning Strikes People What happens when people and lightning converge. From Science NASA
• Lightning for Mariners (pdf) Know what to expect before heading out on the water. From NOAA
• Lightning Safety Facts (pdf) The best thing you can do to avoid lightning is to learn and practice good lightning safety. From NOAA
• News Flash! Lightning Kills! (pdf) More people are hurt by lightning than tornadoes or hurricanes. From NOAA.

• Flood! From FEMA
• Flood Terms Learn and know your Folld Terms. FEMA
• What to do BEFORE a Flood Steps you can take to remain safe if a flood threatens your area. FEMA
• What to do DURING a Flood FEMA
• What to do AFTER a Flood FEMA

• Tornado! From FEMA
• Tornado Terms Learn and know your Tornado Terms. FEMA
• What to do BEFORE a Tornado Tornado safety preparation. FEMA
• What to do DURING a Tornado Protect yourself in any situation. FEMA
• What to do AFTER a Tornado FEMA
• USA Today - Tornadoes Flash animation showing how tornadoes form and what you can do to protect yourself.
• Tornado Safety From the American Red Cross.

• Ohio Committee for Severe Weather Awareness Since 1978, the Ohio Committee for Severe Weather Awareness has been dedicated in educating Ohioans about the natural disasters that typically affect the state, and how to plan and prepare for severe weather incidents before they happen.
• Ohio Emergency Management Agency The primary mission of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency is to coordinate activities to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. This mission is carried out by closely interfacing with local, state and federal agencies in an effort to bring resources of recovery and support to Ohioans impacted by the disaster. In addition to disaster response and recovery, Ohio EMA agency activities include: education, training, planning and preparedness - strengthening Ohio's first responder capabilities and improving communication across the state.
• Ready Ohio Resource with the information Ohioans need to prepare for all types of emergencies.
• Stark County Emergency Management Agency