SKYWARN Newsletter #203

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Hello to all...

SKYWARN Training Schedule Update...

SKYWARN Training 2003 Kicks Off With A Heavy Week of Training...

P3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft and NHC Presentation in New Bedford, Mass...

Dr. Gray Continues Prediction for an Active Tropical Season...

Heavy Rains Affect Portions of Southern New England on 3/30/03-3/31/03...

Winter Doesn't Give Up as Snow And Ice Occurs on 4/4/03-4/5/03...

Emergency Communications Workshop Shows New Format and Has Great Participation...

Updated SKYWARN Frequency List for the Region...

Newsletter Issued: 4/5/03.

SKYWARN Training Schedule Update...

The SKYWARN Training Schedule has been updated as the Tolland, CT

SKYWARN Training has been confirmed for Thursday May 1st from 7-10

PM and the Coventry, RI SKYWARN Training has been confirmed for

Saturday May 31st from Noon-3 PM. The updated schedule can be seen

below and at:

http://www.ultranet.com/~rmacedo/trsched.htm

The following is an update on SKYWARN training for year 2003. Further

updates will be posted on the web site as needed.

04/07/2003 7-10PM Pioneer Valley Regional High School

Mon. Route 10

Northfield, MA

04/08/2003 6:30-9:30PM Manchester Memorial Elementary School

Tues. Manchester, MA

04/10/2002 7-10PM The Carriage House-Manchester, NH Red Cross Chapter

Thurs. 1800 Elm Street

Manchester, NH

04/28/2003 6:30-9:30PM Walpole, NH Town Library

Mon. Walpole, NH

04/29/2003 7-10PM Sturdy Memorial Hospital

Tues. Rice-Webb Auditorium

Attleboro, MA

04/30/2003 6:30-9:30PM Alcott School

Wed. 91 Laurel Street

Concord, MA

05/01/2003 7-10PM Tolland High School

Thurs. One Eagle Hill

Tolland, CT

05/3/2003 Noon-3PM Newport Public Library

Sat. 300 Spring Street

Newport, RI

05/5/2003 7-10PM Merrimack High School (Little Theater)

Mon. 38 McElwain Street

Merrimack, NH

05/7/2003 7-10PM Plymouth Community Intermediate School

Wed. 117 Long Pond Road

Plymouth, MA

05/8/2003 7-10PM Walpole Town Hall/Senior Center

Thurs. Walpole, MA

05/17/2003 Noon-3PM Wilbraham Middle School Auditorium

Sat. 466 Stony Hill Road

Wilbraham, MA

05/19/2003 7-10PM Nashua City Hall

Mon. 229 Main Street

Nashua, NH

05/31/2003 Noon-3PM Manchester Masonic Hall

Sat. 585 Wasington Street Route 117

Coventry, RI

06/09/2003 7-10PM Worcester Emergency Management Operations Center

Mon. 50 Skyline Drive

Worcester, MA

06/10/2003 6:30-9:30PM Nantucket Fire Department EOC

Tues. 131 Lower Pleasant Street

Nantucket, MA

SKYWARN Training 2003 Kicks Off With Heavy Week of Training...

SKYWARN Training 2003 has kicked off in the NWS Taunton County Warning

Area and has been literally gaining participation with each passing

session across the NWS Taunton County Warning Area. The season started

in Swanzey, NH where 12 people attended the SKYWARN training on March

31st. The training was then done on April 1st in Pomfret, CT with 25

people attending. Training was then done in Rocky Hill, CT on April

3rd where 38 people attended. The last training session for this week

was on April 5th in Falmouth where 60 people attended making it the

highest session so far this season. The presentation has been well

received and we welcome the new people that are on the SKYWARN

Newsletter email list and hope they find the Storm Coordination

emails, the post storm report emails and the SKYWARN Newsletter

very informative.

This week SKYWARN training will continue with a sesson on Monday

April 7th in Northfield, Mass, Tuesday April 8th in Manchester, Mass.

and Thursday April 10th in Manchester, NH. After these sessions,

there will be a two week break in training before the next one on

Monday April 28th in Walpole, NH.

Please pass the word along to anyone interested in SKYWARN training.

For public safety people, they do count as EMT training credits.

P3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft and NHC Presentation in New Bedford, Mass...

The P3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft will be visiting Southern New England.

The P3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft will be in New Bedford, Massachusetts

on Tuesday May 6th from 3:30-5:30 PM at the New Bedford Regional Airport.

Following the P3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft tour, there will be a presentation

on hurricanes given by National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield

from 7-8:30 PM at the New Bedford High School.

This should be a very informative presentation and the tour of the P3

plans should be very interesting for anyone who follows the flight of

aircraft into some of nature's most powerful storms! There is no

admission and all are welcome to attend. You can also see this link

below for the exact addresses to the airport and the New Bedford

High School:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/box/hurrHunter.shtml

Dr. Gray Continues Prediction for an Active Tropical Season...

Dr. Gray has released his latest tropical weather outlook and we

continue to be in a pattern susceptible for Tropical Storms and

Hurricanes. Dr. Gray is anticipating an above normal hurricane

season once again with higher than normal strike probabilities

for landfall across the US mainland. His outlook is unchanged from

one that he issued late last year for the 2003 Hurricane Season.

The link below features Dr. Gray's detailed outlook for hurricanes

for 2003 just issued on April 4th along with his previous forecasts

and other information about the project that he has continued his

research on for many years:

http://hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu/Forecasts/index.php

Heavy Rains Affect Portions of Southern New England on 3/30/03-3/31/03...

Beginning during the early morning hours of Sunday March 30th and

extending through the early morning hours of Monday March 31st, a

strong storm entered Southern New England and resulted in a general

swath of .50-1.5" rainfall across western and central parts of

Southern New England but across Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island

particularly in the southeast part of those areas, rainfall of 2-4"

were quite common. While some minor urban flooding occurred, streams

and rivers stayed in their banks and there were no road washouts or

road closures due to flooding. SKYWARN was briefly activated over Cape

Cod and the Islands where Frank O'Laughlin, WQ1O, monitored the local

Amateur Radio Repeater and public safety for any flood issues but were

none were found. SKYWARN Spotters from across the area reported

rainfall amounts in excess of 2" during this event. At the end of

the storm a dusting to 2" of snow fell across much of the region.

Winter Doesn't Give Up as Snow And Ice Occurs on 4/4/03-4/5/03...

Light snow and freezing rain occurred across much of interior Southern

New England. Across Southern New Hampshire, however, 3-6" of snow

was common across the region. At the same time, it could've been

far worse for the region.

Across Eastern New York, a major ice storm occurred with 5-8 counties

of Central New York had to declare states of emergency due to widespread

power outages and trees and wires down due to ice. In Eastern New York,

in the Capital District area of Albany, Schenectady and Troy, NY, at one

point in the storm, 100,000 people were without power with .50-1" ice

accretion amounts common in that region. Just to the North from the

Glens Falls, NY area north and west, 12-18" of snow occurred!

Across Southern New England, a light glazing of ice occurred and did

make travel treacherous and result in accidents but luckily the heaviest

precipitation skirted Souhtern New Hampshire with the main focus of the

precipitation missing the region. This helped to avert a significant

ice storm in Southern New England. Also, overnight precipitation fell

more as sleet then freezing rain which also minimized the icing threat.

Unfortuantely, winter will not give up and another storm, perhaps at

least a moderate snow storm, will affect the region Monday Night

and Tuesday followed by another storm, which should be a cold rain

late in the week. Winter refuses to let go of the region.

Emergency Communications Workshop Shows New Format and Has Great Participation...

The Emergency Communications Workshop in Sandwich Massachusetts last

weekend was a great success as a new format was used which featured

a condensed slide set introducing everyone to emergency communications,

(ARES/RACES/SKYWARN), Net Operations, NTS and a new slide set on Go

Kits or kits Amateurs should bring with them if deployed to shelters

and served agencies. About 30 people attended the workshop and it

was well-received. The Go Kit presentation which included types of

antennas to bring to deployments as a new twist to the training was

very well received at the workshop.

The workshop goes into communications essentials and these include

essentials of how to participate in ARES and SKYWARN Nets as well

as deploy to shelters and public service events. This workshop is

given 2-3 times a year based on site and presenter availability and

is worthwhile for Amateurs to attend across the region.

Updated SKYWARN Frequency List for the Region...

We have some new Amateur Radio Operators and also some updates

to our SKYWARN Frequency list so below is the list of SKYWARN

Frequencies in Southern New England. If there are any additions,

deletions or corrections, please let me know and I'll update and

resend in the newsletter. You can also check this link on the SKYWARN

web-site for this same information:

http://users.rcn.com/rmacedo/freq.htm

Below is the frequency List:

SKYWARN WEATHER NETS:

*****MASSACHUSETTS*****

REPEATER PAIR & LOCATION Area Served

146.910/146.310: MT Greylock Western MA, Berkshire County

146.940/146.340: MT Tom Western MA (Conn. River Valley, MA.)

147.105/147.705: Wilbraham Western MA IRLP Liaison/Mount Tom Alternate PL: 162.2 Hz

146.985/146.385: Greenfield Franklin County MA

146.925/146.325: Worcester Worcester County Linked with 145.37 PL: 100 Hz

145.370/144.770: Templeton Worcester County Linked with 146.925. PL: 136.5 Hz

145.470/144.870: Danvers Essex, Middlesex Counties PL: 136.5 Hz

146.640/146.040: Waltham Essex, Middlesex and Norfolk Counties

145.230/144.630: Boston Alternate for Waltham PL: 88.5 Hz

146.625/146.025: Haverhill Northern Middlesex/Essex County MA PL: 156.7 Hz

146.895/146.295: Walpole Norfolk County Ma.

147.195/147.795: Attleboro Northern Bristol County Ma. PL: 100 Hz

147.180/147.780: Bridgewater South Shore, Ma. PL: 67 Hz

147.225/147.825: Whitman Alternate for 147.180 PL: 67 Hz

145.490/144.890: Fairhaven South Coastal MA and RI

146.955/146.355: Dennis Cape Cod and the Isles Primary PL: 88.5 Hz

146.655/146.055: Falmouth Cape Cod and the Isles Optional PL: 88.5 Hz

***RHODE ISLAND****

REPEATER PAIR & LOCATION Area Served

146.760/146.160: Scituate Rhode Island State Liaison

146.700/146.100: Cranston Northern RI

147.165/147.765: Exeter, RI Southwest RI PL: 67.0 Hz

444.050/449.050: E.Greenwich,RI Southwest RI

****CONNECTICUT****

REPEATER PAIR & LOCATION Area Served

146.535: Simplex CT Statewide Backup

147.000/147.600: Soapstone Hartford/Tolland Counties CT No PL.

147.090/147.690: Glastonbury Hartford/Tolland Counties CT PL:77 Hz.

147.225/147.825: Killingly Windham County CT PL: 156.7 Hz

145.370/144.770: Torrington Litchfield County CT PL: 77 Hz.

147.390/147.990: Simsbury Fairfield County CT No PL.

442.750/447.750: Fairfield Fairfield County CT PL: 100 Hz linked with 147.390.

145.290/144.690: Killingworth Middlesex County CT PL:110.9 Hz.

147.505/146.505: West Haven New Haven County CT PL:77.0 1 MHz Offset

146.730/146.130: Norwich New London County CT PL:156.7 Hz.

****SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE****

REPEATER PAIR & LOCATION Area Served

146.805/146.205: Keene Cheshire County NH

147.045/147.645: Nashua Eastern Hillsborough County NH

146.730/146.130: Hollis Western Hillsborough County NH PL: 88.5 Hz

443.350/448.350: Pk Monadnock Hillsborough County, NH PL: 110.9 Hz

448.000/443.000: Pk Monadnock Hillsborough County, NH Alternate PL: 203.5 Hz

****NWS LIAISON FREQUENCIES****

REPEATER PAIR Area that Liaison is Provided

53.31/52.31 MEMA/NWS Liaison for Southern New England. PL:71.9 Hz

145.390/144.790 IRLP Liaison Link: West Mass/North CT(Scituate, Ma. Repeater)

448.175/443.175 IRLP Liaison Link: West Mass/North CT(Framingham, MA Repeater)# PL: 88.5

146.410(Simplex) IRLP Liaison Link: West Mass/North CT (Barrington, RI Repeater)# PL: 88.5

146.760/146.160 Rhode Island, Southeast Mass., Northern CT Liaison*

146.925/146.325 Western/Central Ma, Cheshire County NH Liaison*

146.640/146.040 Northeast Mass., Hillsborough County NH Liaison*

146.970/146.370 West/Central MA, North CT Liaison Back-up PL: 114.8** (Paxton Repeater)

443.350/448.350 Cheshire/Hillsborough County, NH and Northeast Mass. Liaison PL: 110.9

448.000/443.000: Pack Monadnock Hillsborough County, NH Alternate Liaison PL: 203.5

146.410 Simplex: Western Mass/Northern CT Secondary Liaison Through IRLP PL: 88.5 Hz

145.550 Simplex: Western Mass/Northern CT Secondary Liaison Through IRLP PL: 77.0 Hz

446.000 Simplex: Western Mass/Northern CT Secondary Liaison Through IRLP PL: 67.0 Hz

* - Signifies liaison frequencies that are also considered to have nets

for specific areas.

**- Signifies it is utilized for RACES primarily but has been used in

the past for auxiliary liaison to effected areas.

#- Signifies Alternate IRLP links to be utilized as needed.

Note: The 146.64 Waltham Repeater is also used as a RACES primary. Past

situations have indicated that RACES & SKYWARN have shared the

frequency or worked out a plan for RACES to utilize the MMRA,

Minuteman Repeater Association linked repeater system as needed.

Respectfully Submitted,

Robert Macedo (KD1CY)

ARES SKYWARN Coordinator

SEMCARES Emergency Coordinator

Pager #: (508) 354-3142

Home Phone #: (508) 994-1875 (After 6 PM)

Home/Data #: (508) 997-4503 (After 6 PM)

Work Phone #: 1-800-445-2588 Ext.: 72929 (8 AM-5 PM)

Email Address: rmacedo@rcn.com

http://users.rcn.com/rmacedo

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