It's official. Humboldt County has been given the "Storm Ready" designation through the cooperative efforts of the National Weather Service, Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, Winnemucca Police Department, and Humboldt County School District.
National Weather Service officials Delyne Kirkham, Michael Fitzsimmons and Brian Boyd bestowed the official designation to Humboldt County commissioners along with two metal signs to be displayed.
Weather radios have been distributed to key people and a number of county residents, including Commissioners Marlene Brissenden and Jim French, have completed storm spotter training to qualify as part of the advance warning system.
"These signs let people who are savvy, including those traveling through the community, know Humboldt County cares about its residents enough to go through the stringent process to become storm ready," said Boyd, senior meteorologist and outreach team leader.
Fitzsimmons, warning coordination meteorologist, praised Humboldt County Sheriff Ed Kilgore, for "the amount of work done to get communication system infrastructure in place throughout the county to warn citizens of any severe weather event."
He added thanks to Officer Andy Murdock, "loaned" by the Winnemucca Police Department, and said Murdock did great work as liaison between the NWS and the county.
"Storm Ready" is a national program that designates counties as storm ready when they have completed a comprehensive application that details communications and emergency systems in place to get the word out when severe weather threatens. Warnings can even include emergencies like hazardous materials spills which, although not strictly weather-related, are affected by the weather.
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