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National Weather Service recognizes Barry County as StormReady; officials urge redundant alerting
Summary
The National Weather Service presented Barry County with a StormReady county designation and certificates for central dispatch and auxiliary communications; officials urged residents to use multiple alert systems and promoted upcoming storm-spotter and FEMA training.
Barry County officials were presented with StormReady recognition by the National Weather Service on March 10, a designation county emergency manager Patrick Jansen said recognizes local capabilities to receive, monitor and distribute severe-weather information.
Nathan Jerusil, senior meteorologist at the NWS office in Grand Rapids, explained the StormReady criteria: the ability to receive NWS information, redundancy in disseminating warnings to the public and local…
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