{"_generated":"2026-10-29","_about":"SKYWARN storm spotter training classes that an Indiana resident can attend: in-person classes held in Indiana, and online classes run by a National Weather Service office that serves Indiana counties. Past classes are removed rather than archived.","_credit":{"source":"National Weather Service (NOAA), forecast offices IND, IWX, LMK, PAH, LOT and ILN.","urls":["https://www.weather.gov/source/crh/spottertalks.geojson","https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/noaa.gov_1veb82q9avhmhgmu0ud7jldrso%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics","https://www.weather.gov/pah/spottertraining"],"terms":"US government work in the public domain. The selection, the Indiana test and this file's shape are ours and free to use.","caveat":"A class can be canceled, moved or filled after this was checked, and registration closes early for the virtual ones. The office's own page is authoritative -- follow the link before you drive anywhere.","seasonality":"Spotter training is seasonal. Most Indiana classes run from late February into April; Paducah adds a September and October round and winter-weather sessions land in November and December. An office listing nothing in, say, July has not gone quiet -- it is out of season.","checked":"2026-10-19"},"offices":[{"cwa":"IND","office":"NWS Indianapolis","url":"https://www.weather.gov/ind/spotter","note":"Classes are arranged with each county's emergency management agency and run from late February through early April. The schedule is the office's public Spotter Outreach calendar, read here directly.","harvested":true,"upcoming":6},{"cwa":"IWX","office":"NWS Northern Indiana","url":"https://www.weather.gov/iwx/Spotter_Event_List","note":"Runs both a spring and a fall season, in person by county and as virtual sessions. Entered in the NWS Central Region spotter-talk listing, read here directly.","harvested":true,"upcoming":6},{"cwa":"LMK","office":"NWS Louisville","url":"https://www.weather.gov/lmk/skywarn","note":"Lists the multi-office virtual sessions, which are the same ones in the Central Region listing, plus four self-paced online modules with quizzes that end in a spotter registration.","harvested":true,"upcoming":0},{"cwa":"PAH","office":"NWS Paducah","url":"https://www.weather.gov/pah/spottertraining","note":"Trains in February and March and again in September and October, and adds an Elite Spotter workshop for people who have done the basic class. Its schedule table is read here directly.","harvested":true,"upcoming":1},{"cwa":"LOT","office":"NWS Chicago","url":"https://www.weather.gov/lot/seminar","note":"States that basic storm spotter training in its area -- northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana -- is offered online only; its in-person events are community weather preparedness, which is a different class.","harvested":true,"upcoming":6},{"cwa":"ILN","office":"NWS Wilmington, OH","url":"https://www.weather.gov/iln/spottertrainingschedule","note":"Trains from late January through early May, one or two classes per county, arranged with the county emergency management agency. 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