About Us - John K

John Kashirsky, Regional Notification Consultant

John Kashirsky is a Regional Notification Consultant for WeatherCall Services Enterprise product and manages the development of Social Weather Feeds™.  John created the first live audio stream for the National Weather Service (NWS) Springfield SkyWarn weather spotter network, while also creating the Southwest Regional SkyWarn Facebook page, where he and his team of contributors provide real-time notification of NWS issued severe weather warnings.  Followers of his page frequently credit the information on that page with saving or affecting their lives in giving them the information to take the proper action during severe weather warning situations.

John has completed numerous training courses in Virtual Storm Spotter training and basic to advanced SkyWarn training, including COMET training on the role of the storm spotter, weather radar fundamentals and radar signatures for severe convective weather.  Along with his education, John has been a co-instructor of FEMA's Warnings Coordination course at the International Association of Emergency Management's annual conference. John was storm spotting near Joplin, MO, when the deadly tornado developed on May 22, 2011, and was one of the first to arrive to help rescue the survivors.  This experience greatly increased his passion to vastly improve the warnings information dissemination process in order to prevent future death and injury associated with destructive severe weather.

John lives in Republic, Missouri, and is married with 3 boys.

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