Session: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events (96th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 13 January 2016: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Papers:

860

Decision Support Services and Impacts of the Flash Flood and Debris Flow in Mount Charleston, Nevada, 28 July 2014

Michael J. Paddock, NWS, Las Vegas, NV

Manuscript (2.3 MB)

Handout (2.6 MB)

861

Weather Impact Matrix for Supporting FEMA at the Regional and National Level

863

Understanding Psychological Factors that Influence Perceptions of Safe Shelter and Decisions to Shelter after a Tornado Warning

Marita A. O'Brien, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH

Handout (297.7 kB)

862

Thoughts on the Use of Probabilistic and Deterministic Weather Data for Incident Command Support and Decision Support Services

864

Weather Ready Nation Ambassadors Program at the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Harold Peterson, Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Region Office, Nashville, TN; and C. McGhee, J. Blackhair, L. Rawlings, M. Kelley, K. Bluecloud, R. Harjo, A. Ruth, and D. Saunders

Manuscript (500.0 kB)

866

Optimization of Stormwater management practices under Climate Change and continued Urbanization in the US Mid-Atlantic region

Ibraheem M. P. Khan, University of Maryland, College Park, Hyattsville, MD; and G. Moglen and K. Hubacek

868

Marine Weather Decision Support in a Complex Coastal Environment

Kennard B. Kasper, NOAA/NWSFO, Key West, FL; and C. Rothwell

Handout (2.0 MB)

869

The Potential Adverse Effects of the Cold-dry (Harmattan) season on Respiration, Behaviour and Work output of Pack Donkeys in Northern Nigeria mitigated by Ascorbic acid

Olaifa Helen Folashade Sr., Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria; and A. J. Olusegun Sr.

871

Implementation of the Impacts Catalog at the Miami Weather Forecast Office

Kristian Mattarochia, NWS, Hanford, CA; and K. Rodriguez, D. Gregoria, and J. G. Estupińán

873

Recent Changes of the Urban Local Climate using Satellite Data and In-situ Measurements

Judit Bartholy, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary; and R. Pongrácz, Z. Dezső, C. Dian, and C. Fricke

Manuscript (3.0 MB)

875

An Overview of the Unusual Severe Weather Events in a Near Record Fire Weather season in Alaska

Melissa Kreller, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and C. Cox, R. Metzger, and R. Thoman

876

National Weather Service Decision Support Tools: Communicating Impacts Effectively

Holly M. Allen, NOAA/NWSFO Birmingham, Calera, AL; and M. L. Grantham, M. E. Anderson, E. E. Carpenter, M. R. Wilson, and L. Myers

870

Toward Improved Consistency of Flash Flood Product Issuance in the Southwestern United States

877

Use of Live Google Traffic Maps to Assess Weather Impacts on Roads

Barry R. Bowers, NOAA/NWS Amarillo, TX, Amarillo, TX; and C. B. Elsenheimer

878

Air Quality Messaging; A Look into the Inland Northwest Inter-Agency Coordination

Andy Brown, NOAA/NWS, Spokane, WA

872

The Improved Satellite Analysis Branch Precipitation Program and its Use of GOES-R/JPSS Proving Ground Products in an Operational Environment

879

Benefits of Social Media in Communicating Weather Information during Hurricane/Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy and the 2013 Colorado Floods

Kari Kundert Bowen, NOAA/NWSFO, Westminster, CO

880

Military vs NWS weather warning process: Case study of 28 May 2015 New Mexico hailstorm

Calvin Elkins, United States Air Force, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ; and T. C. Richmond

874

A Summer Experience: A Warning Coordination Meteorologist and an Emergency Management Student Learning From Each Other about Impact-Decision Support Services (IDSS)

881

The Winter 2014-2015 Probabilistic Storm Total Snowfall Forecast Experiment

David B. Radell, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and J. S. Waldstreicher, J. Watson, R. Watling, S. M. Zubrick, J. W. Dellicarpini, A. M. Cope, and J. S. Tongue

Handout (1.2 MB)

882

Providing Forecasters with Mesoscale Domain Options of the WRF-EMS for Enhancing Local Decision Support, Continuity of Operations, and Service Backup

Da'Vel Johnson, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and P. F. Blottman and D. W. Sharp

883

Real-time Evaluation of National Weather Service Forecasts in Support of Cold Protection of Agricultural Commodities in Florida

William R. Lusher, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and G. W. Braun

884

Diagnosing the Meteorology of 'Double Impact' Tornado/Flash Flood Events

Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and E. R. Nielsen, R. Tournay, J. M. Peters, and R. S. Schumacher

885

Innovative Evaluations of National Weather Service Severe Weather Warnings with a CONUS-wide Multi-Radar, Multi-Sensor Climatological Database