This is all very good/useful information. Thank you. I have been away from the hobby for a while, but hoping to finally get a working Ham radio again soon. (I have been off the air for over 6 years ever since my old radio broke). I probably should've posted this in the Amateur Radio thread, but since I was only interested in information for NJ, I posted it here. I guess it's faster to notify the NWS via landline as long as their lines don't get jammed up. I realize that normally, weather conditions in this area aren't too extreme, but there has been several times that tornadoes have popped up without warning and it is my opinion that there should be designated HAM radio repeaters for operators to report conditions, IF they arise suddenly. I'm not even referring to trained weather spotters, but just a way to warn other HAMS or those non-HAMS monitoring on the scanner that a really bad storm is coming. Tornadoes definitely occur more often in the mid-west, but we get our share of damaging winds associated with bad thunderstorms in this area too. Social media only works until the power gets knocked out. If I happen to catch any skywarn or RACES nets, I will post them here. Hopefully others can do the same. Even if Ham radio is not needed in most circumstances these days, I would think, if anything, it would be fun to still run "nets" and play with our radios a little bit from time to time.
After doing a little research, I found that in Union County, the RACES repeater is 147.255. Skywarn, at least at one time, was on 445.025 and 449.975, Springfield OEM (according to RR) is 446.375.