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