How does Metro Skywarn work?
To accomplish it’s mission, Metro Skywarn, Incorporated provides the following: It recruits volunteer skywarn instructors and arranges training for the instructors from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Division of Emergency Management in cooperation with the National Weather Service. It recruits sponsoring organizations to host annual training sessions. It schedules instructors and other volunteers to cover the training sessions. It tests trainees completing the classes and certifies successful candidate as Metro Skywarn Spotters and assigns a Metro Skywarn Identification Number to each. It contracts with repeater owners for access to repeaters for Skywarn Nets. It coordinates with other organizations to provide Emergency Operating Centers, to serve as Net Control Stations and to provide Net Control Operators (EOC-OPS). It develops the net procedures, trains net personnel, and plans and coordinates with ARES/RACES organizations and repeater owners, and puts together several t
