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Storm Safe visits Baca Elementary School in Pueblo

Meteorologist Lauren Brand inspires third graders at Baca Elementary
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KOAA) — On Wednesday, Meteorologist Lauren Brand visited students in Pueblo to teach them about severe weather safety.

She went to Baca Elementary where she spoke with third graders. The students learned how to be safe from thunderstorms, winter storms, flash floods and tornadoes.

For more information on how to have First Alert 5 Weather visit with your classroom, email lauren.brand@koaa.com.

Want to get your young scientists and artists in your family involved? Download the First Alert 5 Storm Safe activity book (20MB PDF).

They'll find useful and fun information on winter storms, thunderstorms, lightning, hail, strong winds, tornadoes, flooding, how to be a safety kid, cool ideas for safe at-home experiments and more!

Your young scientist can also send in a portion of the activity book to be featured in a First Alert 5 forecast.

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Curious about the First Alert 5 Weather Storm Impact Scale? Check out our cheatsheet explainer.

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Severe storms begin to pick up Tuesday heading into the evening hours

Skies will begin to turn stormy and unsettled as early as the lunch hour. That's when we expect the first round of storms to develop along the Front Range. For the Pikes Peak Region and I-25 corridor, our main window for severe weather will come between 1-6 pm.

Severe storms begin to pick up Tuesday heading into the evening hours

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