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National Weather Service Overview and Role in the IWT

National Weather Service Overview and Role in the IWT. Andy Bailey Warning Coordination Meteorologist Pleasant Hill, MO andy.bailey@noaa.gov. Agenda. NWS Overview Our personality Our view of our role in the IWT Perceived Challenges Perceived Constraints Perceived Relationship.

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National Weather Service Overview and Role in the IWT

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  1. National Weather Service Overview and Role in the IWT Andy Bailey Warning Coordination Meteorologist Pleasant Hill, MO andy.bailey@noaa.gov

  2. Agenda • NWS Overview • Our personality • Our view of our role in the IWT • Perceived Challenges • Perceived Constraints • Perceived Relationship

  3. NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill • To protect life and property through the issuance of forecasts and warnings, and to enhance the national economy.

  4. Profile of a Typical NWS Forecaster • Passionate about weather • (likely from an early age) • Very committed to the job and believes in the mission • Proud to work for the NWS

  5. Personality of a Typical NWS Forecaster(70 percent are MB - ISTJ) • Quiet and reserved (introverted) • Strong internal sense of duty • Loyal, faithful, dependable • Tend to believe in laws and traditions • Excellent ability to take a task, define it, organize it, plan it, and implement it through to completion

  6. My perspective on our Role in the IWT • We are the technical weather experts • We lead the IWT with respect to: • Threat analysis, prediction, and warning • We are the severe weather authority • There is no group better equipped or trained than a NWS WFO for this task • Through our technical role, we are here to support the work of EMs and the Broadcast Media

  7. My perspective on our Role in the IWT • We view emergency managers as partners who make the warnings effective at the local level • We view the media as partners who communicate the warning to the masses • It is in our (NWS) best interest to help our IWT partners be as successful as possible. Doing so helps us achieve our mission.

  8. Perceived Challenges • Achieving “perfect warning” statistics and what are failure does to our credibility • Polygon vs Tor track • Nature of inexact science • Communication capability • Personal as well as technological • Internal struggles • Accuracy vs. service/interpretation • Agency cultural inertia • Defining our IWT role

  9. Perceived Constraints • We can’t change policy quickly, or independently from other WFOs (also remember our personality) • Technical limitations (science and tools) • Our budget has essentially been cut • Staffing will not increase

  10. Relationship Challenges • It is difficult to build relationships with 44 county officials, and many, many more city/town officials • We occasionally get sucked into the fray of media competition • I don’t feel our relationship with media is good - and I’m not entirely sure what to do about it

  11. What I want out of the Workshop • More “team” thinking among all facets of the IWT. • Strengthened relationships/increase in trust among IWT • Identify ways we can work together to get a better response from public to our warnings • Commitment to build on this workshop

  12. Discussion?

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