Severe Weather Awareness week will carry over into next week with a weather spotter class.

Buchanan County Emergency Management Director Bill Brinton said the annual NOAA Weather Spotter class goes over various types of weather events and how to stay safe.

“They talk about tornadoes and how they grow or become tornadoes and they talk about different weather patterns and all kinds of basic information about how to be safe in the event of a storm,” Brinton said. “Weather is something that affects all of us and you need to be able to look outside or to follow the news and be able to know what’s going on and how to take safe efforts to protect you and your family.”

The free weather spotter class will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Historic Missouri Theater in St. Joseph.