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NOAA’s National Weather Service and All-Hazards Dissemination

NOAA’s National Weather Service and All-Hazards Dissemination. National Severe Weather Workshop 2005 March 3, 2005. Topics. NWS All-Hazards Mission HazCollect and DMIS Some Challenges. NWS All-Hazards Mission.

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NOAA’s National Weather Service and All-Hazards Dissemination

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  1. NOAA’s National Weather ServiceandAll-Hazards Dissemination National Severe Weather Workshop 2005 March 3, 2005

  2. Topics • NWS All-Hazards Mission • HazCollect and DMIS • Some Challenges

  3. NWS All-Hazards Mission • NWS primary mission to provide environmental forecasts and warnings for protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. • DHS National Response Plan (NRP) Communications Annex (ESF #2) tasks NOAA/NWS to “provide public dissemination of critical pre and post event information…” Effective and timely public warnings saves lives, reduces property losses, and speeds economic recovery when an emergency occurs.

  4. “All Hazards” MessagesWhat Do We Mean? • “All Hazards” emergency messages include: • Natural Hazards (tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes) • Accidents (chemical releases, oil spills, nuclear power plant emergencies, maritime accidents, train derailments) • Terrorism • AMBER Alerts • Criteria to disseminate Non-Weather Emergency Messages (also known as civil emergency messages): • Public safety is involved • Message comes from an official government source • Information is time critical • Broadcast of Non-Weather Emergency Messages entails: • Message collection, authentication, and dissemination

  5. Administrative Message ADR Avalanche Warning AVW Avalanche Watch AVA Child Abduction Emergency CAE Civil Danger Warning CDW Civil Emergency Message CEM Earthquake Warning EQW Evacuation Immediate EVI Fire Warning FRW Hazardous Materials Warning HMW Law Enforcement Warning LEW Local Area Emergency LAE Network Message Notification NMN 911 Telephone Outage Emergency TOE Nuclear Power Plant Warning NUW Radiological Hazard Warning RHW Shelter in Place Warning SPW Volcano Warning VOW Non-Weather Emergency Message (NWEM) Types

  6. HazCollect Overview HazCollect Supports NWS All-Hazards Mission • A nationwide capability to streamline the current manual creation, authentication, and collection of all types of non-weather emergency messages in a quick and secure fashion for subsequent alert, warning and notification purposes. • HazCollect allows pre-approved and authenticated external emergency managers at the Federal, state, and local levels to submit messages for broadcast over NWR, NWWS, NOAAPORT, NWSTG driven dissemination systems, and the Emergency Alert System (EAS) for the purpose of warning the public.

  7. HazCollect Overview All Hazards Emergency Messages To Re-distributors & Public Consumers NWEM (CEM) Format NWEM (CEM)Format CAP Format EMWIN other Other EM Interfaces NWS Telecom Gateway(TG) NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS) Other EM Systems (DisasterHelp.gov, State EMAs, etc.) Emergency Managers EAS Future WFO AWIPS WFO AWIPS Internet HazCollect DMIS AWIPS DMIS EM Toolkit NOAA WEATHER RADIO NWS WFOs NWS FEMA Dialup Emergency Managers Backup Process (Voice Phone)

  8. 32 54 9 10 20 15 85 38 5 32 2 3 17 9 5 7 34 11 11 10 19 19 97 18 1 1 70 10 15 7 1 4 8 2 4 5 9 5 2 27 38 11 12 24 5 8 18 20 2 46 34 50 Where is DMIS used? • American Samoa (AS) As of 11/23/04: • Total: 1000 User groups • 104 State/Regional User groups • (Coverage: 50 States) • 33 DHS & FEMA User groups • (Coverage: 8 FEMA Regional Offices) • Total: 142 Federal & National User groups • (Coverage: 20 Federal Agencies & Tribal) • - 22 NGO User Groups • 46 Vendors Participating in Interoperability = Currently executing state-wide roll-out = States with 10+ User Groups

  9. Disaster Management Interoperability Services (DMIS) 1000 user groups 50 states 67 real incidents 335 exercises Serving the Emergency Management Community • Core incident management tool set and shared services • Exchange of information across geographical and governmental • boundaries • Alerts, national maps, specific needs request, and • tactical information exchange

  10. Challenges • EAS still unprepared to use the new event codes introduced in 2002 - almost 3 years ago! • As one official said – Program all event codes • Dormant until used, if used • Existing EAS not fully utilized • Use existing capabilities effectively • Write and improve EAS Plans • Evolve to new technologies

  11. NOAA’s National Weather Service Herb WhiteDissemination Services Manager NOAA’s National Weather Service Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services301-713-0090 ext. 146Herbert.White@noaa.gov

  12. Backup Slides

  13. Sample NWEM WOUS40 KSDF 101736 HMWSDF KYZ030-101828- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WARNING JEFFERSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY RELAYED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 129 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 A HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY HAS BEEN ISSUED BY THE JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. THERE HAS BEEN AN ACCIDENT INVOLVING AN AMMONIA LEAK IN THE JEFFERSONTOWN AREA OF THE COUNTY. PERSONS NEAR THE 2500 BLOCK OF PLANTSIDE DRIVE SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. CLOSE ALL WINDOWS AND DOORS...BLOCK OUTSIDE AIR...TURN OFF ANY AIR CONDITIONERS AND FANS…AND BRING IN YOUR PETS. TURN ON YOUR TELEVISION OR RADIO FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. DO NOT CALL 911 UNLESS YOU NEED TO REPORT AN EMERGENCY. $$ CALLAHAN

  14. Non-Weather Emergency Message Public Delivery Non Weather Emergency Message Weather Forecast Office NOAA Weather Radio Weather Wire Service Other NWS Dissemination Methods Commercial Radio/TV (Emergency Alert System) LEGEND Commercial Vendors Message delivered Message delivered if appropriate receiver exists Message delivered according to state plans Voluntary Public

  15. URLs for NWR, SAME, and EAS Information and Documents NWS Home Page www.weather.gov or www.nws.noaa.gov NOAA Weather Radio Home Page www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr NWS NWR Directives: NOAA Weather Radio Dissemination www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/010/pd01017010a.pdf NOAA Weather Radio System Management www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/010/pd01017011a.pdf All Hazards: NWS All Hazards Emergency Message Web Page www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/allhazard.htm All Hazards NOAA Weather Radio Fact Sheet www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/resources/nwr_allhazards.pdf HazCollect Program www.nws.noaa.gov/os/hazcollect/ Emergency Alert System: FCC EAS Report and Order www.fcc.gov/eb/eas NWS EAS Information Web Page www.nws.noaa.gov/om/NWS_EAS.htm AMBER Alerts and the NWS www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/AMBER_Alert_factsheet.pdf Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME): NWR SAME www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/nwrsame.htm Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) references for NWR & EAS “SS” and “CCC” codes: FIPS 5-2 and 6-4 www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/ Special NWS Coastal & Offshore Marine Codes and Area Names for “SS” and “CCC” codes www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/marinenwreas.htm

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