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Severe Weather Conditions (Criteria)
Reference
Cities (Names and Locations)
Quicklink to Local Team Contacts and Frequencies for the Severe Weather (Summer Weather) Program
The Sullivan Committee (SulCom) is
a working group of volunteer – based service organizations that establish
collection and communications standards for collection of near real-time and
residual ground-truth weather data in support of NOAA’s
National Weather Service Forecast Office at
Sullivan Weather has near and long-term weather forecasting responsibility for twenty (20) counties in Southern Wisconsin:
Columbia
Dodge
Fond du Lac
Green
Green Lake
Iowa
Jefferson
Kenosha
Lafayette
Marquette
Milwaukee
Ozaukee
Racine
Rock
Sauk
Sheboygan
Walworth
Washington
Waukesha
and the adjacent coastal
waters of
ALL PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS MUST READ AND UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING:
1.
Although
many methodologies are shared among all areas of the National Weather Service,
each National Weather Service Forecast Office determines their own methods for
achieving the agency’s mission and goals.
The Sullivan Committee programs support NOAA’s
National Weather Service Forecast Office at Milwaukee/Sullivan,
2.
The Sullivan Committee, within their limits of responsibility,
will not work with non-established or unknown local organizations.
3. All local organizations participating in the Sullivan Committee programs must have representation on the Sullivan Committee.
4. Local organizations participating in Sullivan Committee programs must respect any policies that are enforced by the local authorities and the served agencies. A served agency is defined as a legitimate government entity.
5. Local organizations participating in Sullivan Committee programs should only pass information that they deem is credible.
6. Local organizations participating in Sullivan Committee programs have the latitude to determine acceptance of information from unknown sources.
7. Public Safety officials must understand that there are rare instances when the Milwaukee Sullivan Weather Forecast Office will act upon information pertinent to the Public Safety official’s area of responsibility that is obtained from legitimate sources other than the Public Safety official’s office and/or programs.
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