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That particular building also holds a few other things: the Weather Forecast Office (WFO) Norman; the Warning Decision Training Division (WDTD) which teaches new Weather Service (NWS) employees how to issue warnings for tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and flash floods; and the Hazardous Weather Testbed which tests out new technologies and techniques for weather warnings. Oh: it also has the OU meteorology program.

Oklahomans are very sensitive to weather threats for obvious reasons since some of them know and realize tornadoes don’t care about how one voted. The state has a pretty robust infrastructure in place for dealing with tornadoes: sirens, community storm shelters, partnerships amongst government agencies (federal, state, and local) which works well and gets whatever funding it wants, at least on the state and local level.

SPC used to be the National Severe Storms Forecast Center when it was located in Kansas City, and made the move south on I-35 about 30 years ago.