Division of Homeland Security
StormReady
StormReady is a nationwide community preparedness program, that uses a grassroots approach to help communities develop plans to handle all types of severe weather - from tornadoes to tsunamis. The program encourages communities to take a new, proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations by providing emergency managers with clear - cut guidelines on how to improve their hazardous weather operations.
StormReady has different guidelines
for different sized communities.
- Establish a 24 - hour warning point and emergency operations center
- Have more than one way to receive severe weather warnings and forecasts and to alert the public
- Create a system that monitors weather conditions locally
- Promote the importance of public readiness through community seminars
- Develop a formal hazardous weather plan, which includes training severe weather spotters and holding emergency exercises