2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season (Wikipedia)
Hurricane Season is June 1st to November 30th (GDOT)

Georgia SKYWARN Spotter Dashboard
Weather Spotter Handout
Basic Spotter Guide

Be on the lookout for Hazardous Weather Outlook emails from EMA / National Weather Service Peachtree City GA. Look for "Spotter activation will not be needed" or "Spotter activation is requested".
If Spotter activation is requested, begin to monitor 146.955(-600Hz).
If a weather net has been started, say your call sign and inform net control of severe weather you observe or any special weather occurrences that net control specifically requested.

Minimum Severe Reporting Criteria

• All tornado, wall cloud, etc
• All hail reports allowed
• Only wind speeds and/or gusts greater than 50 mph
• All severe hydro related events (flooding, flash flood, etc)
• All notable damage generated from a storm
• All winter reports, IF they have a significant impact
• All tropical reports, IF they have a significant impact

What is NOT allowed (unless otherwise requested by Net Control)

• No test reports.
• No lightning reports
• No "sky is clear" reports
• No "storm is getting stronger/weaker" reports
• No fog reports
• No radar based reports
• No reports of what you are hearing on scanner-ham radio-TV
• No rain measurements unless you believe it constitutes flood conditions.
  Use CoCoRaHS - Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow for precip reports!
• No snow measurements unless you believe it constitutes a dangerous situation
• No general information like "storm is passing the Georgia border"