Hazard Services Development at NOAA's Global Systems Laboratory: 2024 Update

Since 2019, the Hazard Services software has been operational within the second-generation Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS-2) at all National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices and it is used to issue hydrology watches, warnings, and advisories (WWAs). NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) is responsible for requirements gathering, design, and implementation of all other forecast and hazardous weather workflows used by NWS offices and National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) offices into the Hazard Services framework.

There are several ongoing projects at NOAA/GSL to bring more hazardous weather forecast and warning workflows, tools and recommenders, and messaging formats into the Hazard Services framework. These include:

• Virtual, in-person, and hybrid assessments of the migration of all short-fused hazard workflows, currently issued by WarnGen, inside the Hazard Services software framework.
• New drawing and hazard coordination capabilities to manage all short fused-hazard warning areas and their associated storm motions for rapid dissemination by NWS offices.
• A modernized tsunami operations messaging system and its ancillary tools for managing tsunamigenic events and creating Tsunami WWAs, threat messages, and statements in many languages and message formats for the Atlantic and Pacific basins.
• Ongoing development of the first National Center hazards for Aviation in-flight products including a new Domestic Significant Meteorological Information (SIGMET) product within Hazard Services.
• Ongoing development of high seas forecasts and warnings for the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, various hydrometeorological products, and storm surge watches and warnings to provide higher-resolution guidance on anticipated inundation locations than what is available today.
• Enhancements made to the Threats-In-Motion (TIM) project to allow for convective warnings to be extended in area and time to provide equitable lead times to populations downstream of the warning.

This presentation will provide the audience with an overview of these development efforts and summarize its current progress towards NWS operations.