Students get weather safety information

The National Weather Service and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency have teamed up to send weather safety brochures to each school in Tennessee.
TEMA Director James Bassham says his agency has a great relationship with the weather service and TEMA sent the brochures to local emergency management agencies in the state’s 95 counties to distribute.
They underscore lighting safety, thunderstorms, tornadoes, flooding, storm spotter classes and earthquakes.
NWS observing chief Tom Johnstone says that in bad weather situations, trained spotters help provide the weather service with trustworthy real-time information that can help save lives. Anyone 12 or older can take free storm-spotter classes offered by NWS.
Tennessee is one of a handful of states where tornadoes kill more people than flooding, which is the No. 1 weather-related cause of death nationally.