The purpose of the SKYWARN^® program in Pinellas County Florida is to provide the National Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Office at Tampa Bay with timely and accurate reports of severe weather phenomena so that a timely warning can be issued to the public of dangerous weather conditions that include tornadoes, hail, flooding, and damaging thunderstorm winds.

Detailed information about the SKYWARN^® program within Pinellas County can be found in the Pinellas County ACS/ARES^® SKYWARN^® Operations Plan and Standard Operating Procedures document.

Net Control Scripts

This page contains the Net Control Scripts used by Pinellas SKYWARN^® during an activation event. Each SKYWARN^® Activation level has its own unique set of stand-alone NCS scripts.

The following Net Control Scripts are contained in the document.

• SKYWARN^® Condition YELLOW Announcement Script.
• SKYWARN^® Condition RED Announcement Script.
• SKYWARN^® Condition RED to YELLOW Transition Script.
• SKYWARN^® Condition BLACK Announcement Script.
• SKYWARN^® Condition BLACK to RED Transition Script.
• SKYWARN^® Deactivation Script.