UK Campus Severe Weather Preparedness Project

                                     

 

Where is your severe weather shelter?

 

A number of weather resources have been developed for the UK campus to improve our preparedness and response to severe weather…especially tornadoes. These resources are available to you and all departments on campus at the following web url:

 

wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu/stormready

 

Over 100 of the most populated buildings on campus will receive special weather radios which will be programmed to receive Fayette County’s severe weather information. For those buildings the radio will need to be placed in an area that is staffed the entire day. If reception is a problem…you may need to move the radio to a window. The radio is for the entire building. Therefore, you will need to check your building severe weather web page for departmental standard operating procedures.

 

For those buildings not receiving a weather radio in phase 1 of the project…the National Weather Service in Louisville has agreed to stream the audio over the internet. This link to internet weather for the campus is available on your building’s severe weather web page.

 

To achieve the level of preparedness necessary to become certified “StormReady” by the National Weather Service…this building will need to practice tornado drills twice annually.

 

All UK personnel are invited to a two-hour severe weather training workshop to be held on July 29th in the C.E. Barnhart Building as listed below. Completion of the workshop will certify attendees as official campus storm spotters.

 

To ensure the maximum level of preparedness and response to severe weather in this building, UK requests that your department add your severe weather web page and severe weather shelter icon to your department’s front web page.  An example is on the Biosystem and Ag. Engineering front web page at:

 

www.bae.uky.edu/BAEHome.htm

Weather Training:  July 29th from 9:00AM to 11:00AM -OR- from 7:00PM 9:00PM - Room 227 of the C.E. Barnhart Building
If you have any questions or would like to sign up for the training, please contact Tom Priddy at: 257-8803 ext. 245 or

priddy@uky.edu