Back in the early spring of 1994, I attended an 8-week course in Boulder for SOOs called the COMET Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction (COMAP) course. While I was still in Boulder, the Southeastern U.S. got clobbered by a tornado outbreak on Palm Sunday (27 March 1994). This tornado outbreak covered an area from north-central Alabama across northern Georgia to the Carolinas. Forty-two people were killed and there were over 320 injuries. Twenty-two of the fatalities occurred in our CWA, with 20 of them occurring in a church in extreme southern Cherokee County. There was a 12-minute tornado warning lead time for the church, but I'm not sure the churchgoers were aware of the tornado threat as they did not have a NWR.

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In light of all the other training and spring severe weather to come, I offer up the following documents and articles not as mandatory training but as material you should want to read ASAP to be ready for your possible "career defining moment." The degree of reading difficulty increases as you go down the list. At a minimum, you should want to read to the top three documents.