Session 2 Innovative Engagements with Communities to Drive Preparedness Actions

Tuesday, 24 January 2017: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs:
Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc., Halethorpe, MD and Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Papers:
4:00 PM
2.1
NWS' Hazard Simplification Project: An Update on the Effort to Simplify and Clarify Hazard Messaging
Eli Jacks, NOAA/NWS Forecast Services Division, Silver Spring, MD
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
2.2
Addressing the Weather Readiness Gap: Advancements in Severe Weather Information and Tools in America's Weather Industry
Jonathan Porter, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
2.3
Evolving the National Weather Service Communications Strategy to Support Public and Partners Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Katie Garrett, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Pieper
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
2.4
Leveraging the WRN Ambassador Initiative with Vulnerable Stakeholders
Charlie Woodrum, NWS, Honolulu, HI; and J. Saari, T. Boucher, S. R. Pfaff, E. Bentley, and D. Hilderbrand
Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.7 MB)

5:00 PM
2.5
Houston Floods- How Are People Dying, and What Can We Do About It?
Jeffry Evans, NWS, League City, TX; and L. Wood
Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM
2.6
‘Weather Ready or Not': A Podcast Designed to Facilitate Two-way Communication of Weather Risk and Perception
Dakota C. Smith, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
Recorded Presentation

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