Session 3 Creating the Message: Improvements to Warning Products

Thursday, 23 June 2011: 3:30 PM-5:15 PM
Ballroom D (Cox Convention Center)
Host: The Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication
Chair:
John T. Ferree, NOAA/NWS, Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, Norman, OK

Papers:
3:30 PM
3.1
Five challenges to improving NWS tornado warning statistics
J. A. Brotzge, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks and S. A. Erickson
3:45 PM
3.2
4:00 PM
3.3A
Supporter driven Risk Communication: From Thunderstorms to Earthquakes
Tomohiro Ishibashi, Weathernews, Inc, Mihama-ku, Chiba, Japan
3.3 has been moved. New poster number 8

4:15 PM
3.4
The Tornado Warning: Evaluating the Efficacy of Call-to-Action Statements
Gabriel S. Garfield, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. E. Klockow, S. Hoekstra, and S. Cobb
4:30 PM
3.5
Improving call-to-action statements in warnings
Kevin A. Scharfenberg, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK ; and J. T. Ferree, J. Sprague, and B. W. MacAloney II
4:45 PM
3.6
Questioning the "Cone of Uncertainty": proposing alternate hurricane warning graphics
Laura M. Radford, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and J. C. Senkbeil
5:00 PM
3.7
Why Push? A Proposed Communications Model for NWS Warnings
Joel C. Curtis, NOAA/NWS, Juneau, AK

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