Severe Weather Safety Plan

Severe Weather Shelter Areas
The following procedures will be enacted if severe weather is in the area. The Campus Police Department will monitor the National Weather Service forecast over cable TV, Police Band Radio, and the Internet. When an actual tornado or funnel cloud has been sighted and is moving in the general vicinity of the college, the Chief of Police, or a designated representative, will enact Coyote Alert (the campus emergency notification system) to notify students, faculty, and staff shall proceed immediately to the WC designated shelter areas below.

College Facilities by Name

ACAD/Academic Building

  • All occupants should proceed immediately to the first floor, center hallway on west side

AG/Agriculture Building

  • Move to center offices, hallway, and restrooms

Roger Williams Ball Park (Men’s Baseball)

  • Spectator Stands – move to restrooms
  • Field – Dugouts – move to field house showers

BUSI/I.B. Hand Business Building

  • Move to Level 1-Hallway and Women’s Restroom

COVL/Coyote Village

  • All occupants should proceed immediately to the ground floor inner core apartments

DOSS/Doss Student Center/Bookstore/Cafeteria

  • Move to bookstore, kitchen or east restrooms

F.A./Majorie Black Alkek Fine Arts Center

  • Rm. 101-103 move to east restrooms
  • Rm. 104-106 move to Band Hall
  • Stage & Shop move to the dressing room
  • Auditorium – Center & East seating move to East-end hallway by restrooms and sound booths, use the booths and piano practice room

FACL/Faculty Offices, Bldg. #2 (West-side of campus)

  • Move to Building #1 Storage, Mech., and Telephone room

LART/Liberal Arts Building (West-side of campus)

  • Success Connection – move to the north-east corner of room & office
  • Rm. 101-105 – move to Switchboard, utilize restrooms and teacher lounge
  • Rm. 106-109 – move to upper-level restrooms
  • Rm. 113, 114, 115, 122, 123, 124 – move immediately to Switchboard area
  • Rm. 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121 – move to Technology 201

GYMN/Betty Jo Crumm-Graber Athletic Center

  • Move to men’s locker room

HLSC/Don Allen Health Science Building

  • Move downstairs to Men’s and Women’s restrooms or Room 112

LIB/Speaker Jim Wright Library

  • Move to Student Services, lower level, behind service counter

MINC/E.W. Mince Building

  • Move to lower level restrooms and Dance Room

Stuart Field (Women’s Softball)

  • Spectator Stands – move to restrooms
  • Field – Dugouts – move to field house showers

STSV/Student Services Building

  • Move to lower level behind counter

TECH/Jim & Veleda Boyd Technology Building

  • Move to lower level restrooms, Mechanical Room, Work Room & Offices Hallway

TEPS/1st Lt. Jack Knight Building

  • Move to Lecture Hall, restrooms or break room

Weatherford College Wise County

  • Students, faculty & staff assigned to WC Wise County should proceed immediately to the center hall of the campus

Educations Center – Mineral Wells

  • Building 704 – Academic Center proceed immediately to the basement of the building
  • Building 790 – Welding/Machine Shop proceed immediately to the basement in Bldg. #704

Education Center – Granbury

  • All occupants should proceed immediately to the Commons area on the ground floor