Cass County hosts regional weather training
Last Updated on September 7, 2024 by cassnetwork
SOURCE: News release from Cass County Emergency Management Agency
Almost 80 emergency management and weather forecasting professionals from Northern Indiana and adjacent states traveled to Logansport Thursday to discuss ways to improve warning coordination and public messaging during weather emergencies. Attendees came from the many counties served by the Chicago, Indianapolis and Northern Indiana offices of the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service partnered with the Cass County Emergency Management Agency to bring the event to Logansport.
The Regional Integrated Warning Team Workshop brought together partners from the fields of emergency management, meteorology and journalism to explore hazards presented by weather events, each discipline’s respective needs and resources applicable to such events, and how the whole community can work together to achieve timely and interoperable communications, effective and coordinated public warning and complementary coordinated impact assessment.
The full day of training and collaboration covered a variety of topics including National Weather Service forecasting processes, battling mis-information in the age of social media, probabilistic messaging and case studies of actual severe weather events over the last year. The program also included opportunities for attendees to work together and identify areas to strengthen collaboration for future responses.
Other organizations supporting the event included Ivy Tech Community College-Logansport, which provided the facility and NIPSCO which sponsored the meal for attendees.
Participating organizations included:
ABC 57
Adams County Emergency Management Agency
American Red Cross
Cass County Emergency Management Agency
Crown Point Fire Department
Elkhart County Emergency Management Agency
Grant County Emergency Management Agency
Grissom Air Reserve Base Emergency Management
Howard County Emergency Management Agency
Huntington County Emergency Management Agency
Ohio River Forecast Center
Indiana Department of Homeland Security
Indiana Department of Transportation
La Porte County Emergency Management Agency
Marshall County Emergency Management Agency
Matt Rudkin Weather Consulting, LLC
Mercer County Emergency Management Agency
Miami County Emergency Management Agency
Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency
National Weather Service
Pulaski County Emergency Management Agency
Purdue University Northwest
Putnam County Office of Public Safety
St. Joseph County Emergency Management Agency
Tippecanoe County Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Valparaiso Parks
Van Wert County Emergency Management Agency
Wabash County Emergency Management Agency
WANE 15 News
White County Emergency Management Agency
Whitley County Emergency Management Agency
WLFI CBS 18
WNDU
