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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
709 PM CDT Mon Oct 13 2025

...Louisiana Severe Weather Awareness Week...

With the start of the 2025-2026 severe weather season fast
approaching, the National Weather Service has partnered with the
Louisiana Governor`s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency
Preparedness to designate the week of October 13th through October
18th as Louisiana Severe Weather Awareness Week. This is a safety
campaign designed to help residents in the State of Louisiana
prepare for the upcoming severe weather season. Even if you don`t
live or work in Louisiana, this is a good time for people anywhere
in the Four State Region of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas
to learn about severe weather safety and review their severe weather
safety plans. During this week, the National Weather Service will
review the most important aspects of severe weather, and highlight
safety rules. A special public information statement will be issued
each day, along with various social media posts.

Todays topics are...Make a Plan, Make a Kit, and Mobile Home Safety

Severe thunderstorms can form in only a matter of minutes, bringing
with them large hail, damaging winds, dangerous tornadoes, and
deadly lightning. These storms can also produce very heavy rain,
dropping several inches in the space of an hour, which can lead to
deadly flash flooding. You must be able to get to your shelter area
quickly - you may only have seconds to act! No location is immune to
severe weather threats. Your first step to surviving severe weather
is to develop a plan before storms develop.

If you have a safe room or other shelter area, you might consider
storing important papers and other irreplaceable items in the
shelter if space permits. Check and replace batteries in your
weather radio, battery-powered TV, radio, flashlights, and other
devices often in your safety kit, preferable twice a year. Do this
when we set clocks back and ahead in the spring and fall, and when
you replace smoke detector batteries. Check your disaster supplies
kit often to maintain fresh food and water.

Make sure you have something to cover up with. Pillows, blankets,
sleeping bags, a mattress could help to protect you from falling,
flying debris. Above all protect your head, neck and upper body.
Wear a helmet (bicycle, football, baseball, motorcycle, hard hat,
etc.) if you have one. If there`s room, lie flat and cover up.
Otherwise, get as low to the ground as possible and make as small a
target as possible.

...Mobile Home Safety...

Mobile homes are not a safe shelter when tornadoes threaten. NOAA
and FEMA recommend that mobile and manufactured home residents flee
their homes for sturdier shelter before storms with tornadoes hit.
On average, 72 percent of all tornado-related fatalities are in
homes and 54 percent of those fatalities are in mobile homes. When
you are in a mobile home, you are 15 to 20 times more likely to
be killed in comparison to when you are in a permanent home.

If you live in or have family that live in a mobile or manufactured
home, its important to identify a safer structure to evacuate to
before storms hit. Safer structures include single family homes,
designated tornado shelters, buildings built with reinforced
concrete, and community buildings like arenas, churches, and
industrial buildings.

Its important that mobile home residents monitor National Weather
Service forecasts and review their plan. If you are a mobile or
manufactured home resident, you need to know your evacuation route
from your home and how long it takes to evacuate to a safer place.
The day before, when tornadoes are predicted, coordinate with family
and friends to spend time at their home when the storms threaten or
identify a community place to go to. When a Tornado Watch is issued,
that is the time to evacuate to your safe place. In many cases, when
a Tornado Warning is issued, it may be too dangerous to take your
evacuation route, so its best to evacuate your mobile home before
warnings are issued and storms hit.

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