Mar 3, 2025
Severe Weather Preparedness Week 2025 presented by National Weather Service Springfield, MO
When: March 3rd - 7th 2025
Where: Missouri and Kansas
Missouri and Kansas Severe Weather Preparedness Week (SWPW) will be held the week of March 3 to 7, 2025. Each day of the work week will have a specific theme or topic to promote.
Monday: Receiving Information
Tuesday: Lightning Safety
Wednesday: Tornado Safety
Thursday: Hail & Wind Safety
Friday: Flood Safety
This year's tornado drill will occur on Wednesday, March 5th at 11:00 AM. There will not be a backup date. We encourage you to promote this drill locally as an opportunity for schools, businesses, and households to practice sheltering as if it were a real tornado. This year, in order to avoid confusing the public, we will not be sending out a live tornado warning on NOAA Weather Radio, but rather will send out a Routine Weekly Test message with verbiage asking people to practice sheltering. We encourage you to sound your outdoor warning sirens as part of the drill as you may have done in the past. Please help us by publicizing this drill in advance in your community. We would enjoy seeing a picture of you participating in the drill!
Each National Weather Service office will have numerous social media posts throughout the week and we encourage your organization to share our posts, and/or develop your own using the schedule of daily themes above.