Tornadoes are unpredictable and can strike at any time. This course provides essential tornado awareness, shares insights from a rare and significant tornado event, and offers recommendations for improving future disaster responses. Participants will benefit from interviews with telecommunicators who experienced the event firsthand, as well as perspectives from the course instructor who responded to the disaster.

Objectivs/Reason to Take the Course:

1. Enhance Tornado Awareness
   Understand the unpredictable nature of tornadoes and how to prepare for them more effectively.

2. Learn from Real-World Events
   Gain insights from a rare and significant tornado event to better understand the dynamics and impact of such disasters.

3. Improve Emergency Response
   Explore actionable recommendations to strengthen future disaster response strategies.

4. Hear Firsthand Accounts
   Learn from interviews with telecommunicators who managed the incident, offering authentic lessons and experiences.

5. Benefit from Responder Expertise
   Receive practical perspectives and insights from an instructor who responded directly to the disaster, adding operational value to the training.

6. Strengthen Situational Preparedness
   Apply lessons from the event to improve situational readiness for similar emergencies in your own community or agency.

These objectives highlight the course’s focus on preparedness, response improvement, and learning through real-life experiences, making it highly relevant for telecommunicators, emergency responders, and disaster planners.

Instructor Matthew Johnson