MSU designated StormReady
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MSU designated StormReady

  • 19 July 2004
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As part of a nationwide program to help communities prepare against the ravages of severe weather, officials from the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) presented Midwestern State University with letters of recognition and signage designating the university as a StormReady community. The formal presentation took place Tuesday, July 20 in the Hardin Hall Board Room.

 

MSU is the second university in Texas to achieve StormReady status, and one of eight universities nationwide to be formally recognized.

 

"As a StormReady community, MSU has gained the skills necessary to prepare for and mitigate the effects of severe weather," said Mike Foster, meteorologist-in-charge of the NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office in Norman, Okla. "Wichita Falls has a long history of significant weather and it is the goal of StormReady to reduce the impact of severe weather in the region.

 

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