Session 6 Hurricane Studies and Other Tropical Programmatic Achievements

Wednesday, 15 January 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
153C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: Eighth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Tropical Programmatic Updates along with hurricane topics will be presented.

Papers:
8:30 AM
5.1
Identifying Common Themes and Gaps in the National Weather Service Tropical Product Suite
Jessica Fieux, NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. L. Schauer and D. Manning

8:45 AM
5.2
What if Hurricane Michael Struck Houston?An Examination of Inland Wind Damage
Jeff Evans, National Weather Service Houston/Galveston, Dickinson, TX

9:00 AM
5.3
Using Direct and Indirect Fatalities Associated with Hurricane Michael to Change Future Messaging
Jessica Fieux, NWSFO, Tallahassee, FL; NWSFO, Tallahassee, AL; and J. P. Camp and L. Myers

9:15 AM
5.4
Sustained Ocean Observations with Underwater Gliders in Support of Hurricane Intensity Forecasts
Gustavo Goni, 3258650398, Miami, FL; and T. Miles, J. Morell, D. hernandez, S. Glenn, B. LaCour, G. kuska, C. edwards, R. Domingues, F. bringas, P. chardon, G. R. Halliwell Jr., H. S. Kim, and M. leHenaff

9:30 AM
5.5
The Hurricane Risk Calculator: Working Toward Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to Hurricanes through Probabilistic Risk Frameworks for Evacuation Decision Support
Jonathan L. Vigh, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Smith, B. R. Ellingwood, J. Lin, D. O. Prevatt, D. Roueche, B. Brown, D. T. Hahn, J. M. Collins, J. M. Done, G. Wong-Parodi, P. A. Kucera, C. Wang, J. J. Alland, T. Kloetzke, C. M. Rozoff, E. A. Hendricks, A. A. Merdjanoff, C. Arthur, M. Ge, Y. P. Sheng, K. Emanuel, and S. J. Weaver

9:45 AM
5.6
The National Hurricane Center's Outreach and Education Season
John Cangialosi, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL

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