During severe spring and summer storm outbreaks across Minnesota, trained SKYWARN spotters and ARES operators deploy mobile units equipped with weather radar displays and handheld transceivers.
Operators monitor approaching storm fronts, reporting cloud formations, hail size, and wind damage directly to local net control stations and NWS forecast offices in Chanhassen and Duluth.
These real-time visual observations provide critical ground-truth data that assists meteorologists in issuing timely tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings for Minnesota communities.
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