Southwest California SKYWARN is an all volunteer organization that supports the National Weather Service Forecast Office in San Diego, California. It's service region covers the following Areas: San Diego, Orange, Western Riverside and Southwest San Bernardino Counties.

Southwest California SKYWARN is a separate entity from and operates at the request of the National Weather Service, and in no way represents the National Weather Service, its staff, products or services.

Updates

09-25-2007:

THE OFFICIAL SW CA SKYWARN OPERATIONS MANUAL IS FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Official Southwest California Operations Manual is finally available and is located here. It took a lot of work to put this together. It covers a lot of subjects including basic operations, job descriptions, training requirements, program layout and many other things. It is the guidebook for the overall program and the local Areas and the Area Coordinators will still be able to set local policy so long as it doesn't conflict with the overall program policies. As time permits, we will be able toadd to the Operations Manual with annexes that can cover additional subjects not already covered. These subjects can be Area local policies, call-out procedures and other things.

For now, please take a look at the Operations Manual and use it to help you perform your weather spotting better.

Steve Smith, WB6TWL

03-01-2007:

Central Area (San Diego County) operations moves to new repeater system. In a month or two, Central Area operations with move to the San Diego County RACES VHF repeater system on a secondary status basis. This means that our primary operations channel will change to a system with better coverage and more support from RACES personnel. This includes weekly nets, drills and SKYWARN activations! Details are here. Changes to Communications system will be posted on the Communications page.

03-01-2007:

New requirement for potential SKYWARN members. NWS has instituted new training requirements for potential SW CA SKYWARN members. Information located here.

01-08-2007:

OC RACES and Orange Operational Area sign MOU in Orange County. See the full story here. Thank to Mike McLaughlin, Orange Area Coordinator!

Thanks and 73,

Steve Smith, WB6TWL

Region Coordinator

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