National Weather Service in Aberdeen hosting Integrated Weather Team meeting

PIERRE, S.D. (KCCR) – The National Weather Service in Aberdeen is hosting its second Integrated Weather Team meeting Wednesday in Aberdeen. Warning Coordination Meteorologist Kelly Serr says the I-W-T brings key players together to improve severe weather messaging and information dissemination.

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Serr says while good people are in place across the “Weather Enterprise” across South Dakota, there is always room for improvement.

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Serr says this year’s theme focuses on the long lifecycle of a disaster event.

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While Wednesday meeting is the second for the Aberdeen office, three Integrated Weather Team conferences have taken place. The first was a statewide meeting involving all three National Weather Service offices and held at the EROS Data Center near Sioux Falls in 2014.