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. Information from voluntary storm spotters has been an increasingly importantpart for the severe weather warning process at the Zentralanstalt furMeteorologie and Geodynamik (ZAMG), Austria's National Weather Service, foralmost 15 years. In 2010 a collaboration was formalized and an annualtraining was established to educate voluntary observers into “TrustedSpotters”. The return of this investment is a higher credibility of theirobservations after these spotters have undergone a basic meteorologicaltraining and have become aware of their responsibility. The European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) was included to thiscollaboration to adopt their successful quality control system of severeweather reports, which is employed in the European Severe Weather DatabaseESWD. That way, reports from Trusted Spotters automatically obtain a higherquality flag, which enables a faster processing by forecasters on duty forsevere weather warnings, when time is a critical issue. The concept ofcombining training for voluntary storm spotters and a thorough qualitymanagement was recognized as a “Best Practice Model” by the EuropeanMeteorological Society. We propose to apply this concept also in other European countries andpresent its advancement into an even broader, pan-European approach. TheEuropean Weather Observer app EWOB, recently released by ESSL, provides anovel and easy-to-handle tool to submit weather and respective impactobservations. We promote its use to provide better data and information fora further real-time improvement of severe weather warnings.

Trusted Spotter Network Austria – a new standard to utilize crowdsourced weather and impact observations