What are some things that you can do before severe weather strikes?

If you have time before severe weather hits, secure loose objects, close windows and doors, and move any valuable objects inside or under a sturdy structure. Help Your Neighbor: Encourage your loved ones to prepare for severe thunderstorms. Take CPR training so you can help if someone is hurt during severe weather.

1. What should you do before a severe thunderstorm?
2. What do you do in extreme weather conditions?
3. What should you do before during and after a thunderstorm?
4. What are some safety measures during severe bad weather changes?
5. How do you stay safe during a severe storm?
6. How can kids prepare for a thunderstorm?
7. What do you do in a thunderstorm at home?
8. What should you do before during and after a tornado?
9. What happens before a thunderstorm?
10. What items do you need during a thunderstorm?

What should you do before a severe thunderstorm?

To begin preparing, you should prepare an emergency kit and make a family communications plan. Remove dead or rotting trees and branches that could fall and cause injury or damage during a severe thunderstorm. Postpone outdoor activities. Secure outdoor objects that could blow away or cause damage.

What do you do in extreme weather conditions?

Know Where to Go

Get inside right away. If you are in the woods, you must find a place that's low and beneath small trees. Do not seek shelter under larger trees. If you are in the water, get out of the water immediately to seek shelter.

What should you do before during and after a thunderstorm?

Look for darkening skies, flushes of light, or increasing wind. Listen for the sound of thunder. If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to the storm to be struck by lightning. Go to safe shelter immediately! Listen to NOAA Weather Radio, commercial radio, or television for the latest weather forecasts.

What are some safety measures during severe bad weather changes?

Stay indoors and move to a shelter - either an internal, ground-floor room with no windows or an official shelter nearby. Board up windows if you know about severe weather far enough in advance. Avoid metal, electrical, and tall objects during a thunderstorm. Never drive into standing water.

How do you stay safe during a severe storm?

Take safe shelter immediately inside a sturdy building, away from windows, doors and electrical appliances. Avoid contact with conductors of electricity, appliances, metal objects and water. Get out of boats and away from water. Find a low spot (but one that will not flood) away from trees, fences and poles.

How can kids prepare for a thunderstorm?

Avoid sheds, picnic areas, baseball dugouts and bleachers. If there is no shelter around you, stay away from trees. Crouch down in the open area, keeping twice as far away from a tree as far as it is tall. Put your feet together and place your hands over your ears to minimize hearing damage from thunder.

What do you do in a thunderstorm at home?

Do not make phone calls, unless it is in an emergency, or put up an umbrella - the metal directs the current into the body. It is also best to put off baths, showers and dish washing, in case lightning strikes the house and sends a jolt of electricity through the metal plumbing.

What should you do before during and after a tornado?

Go to NOAA Weather Radio and your local news or official social media accounts for updated emergency information. Follow the instructions of state, local and tribal officials. Go to a safe shelter immediately, such as a safe room, basement, storm cellar or a small interior room on the lowest level of a sturdy building.

What happens before a thunderstorm?

Before a Thunderstorm

Large, puffy cumulus clouds. Darkening sky and clouds. Abrupt changes in wind direction. Sudden drop in temperature.

What items do you need during a thunderstorm?

Put together an emergency preparedness kit that includes food, water, battery-powered radio, sanitation and personal hygiene items, medications, flashlight, extra batteries, first aid supplies, copies of personal documents (medication list and pertinent medical information, deed/lease to home, birth certificates, ...