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Your NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office and Emergency Management: A Life Saving Partnership! National Severe Weather Workshop Midwest City, OK - March 3, 2005 Bill Proenza Regional Director National Weather Service Southern Region

NWS SOUTHERN REGION Overview Your “Local” National Weather Service Office and our Severe Weather Active Nation. The Performance of your 122 strong, local WFO Network. NWS Internet: Latest weather information and the new radar images.

NWS SOUTHERN REGION NWS Warning Forecast Offices

NWS SOUTHERN REGION NWS Information Flow Local Warning & Forecast Offices & Regional Operations Center Satellite Data Radar Data NCEP Guidance Upper Air Data Surface Obs. & Buoy Data LocalModeling Partner & Customer Base RFCGuidance Regional Web Farms CWSU Storm Spotters & Amateur Radio Co-Op Observers & Mesonet

NWS SOUTHERN REGION Benefits of Your Local WFO Your local source of timely weather warnings, watches, advisories, statements and outlooks. –(e.g. TORs, SVSs, SPSs, & HWOs) Partner in Community Outreach & Preparedness. Local Area Expertise. For 24 x 7 weather support in natural and man made (accidental or intentional) events.

NWS SOUTHERN REGION Regional Operations Center Federal/State/Local EM briefings NWS major weather event coordination Special staff deployments to active weather areas. Media briefing & Post-event assessment & reporting x147

NWS SOUTHERN REGION World’s Most Active Weather! Billion Dollar Weather Events,

NWS SOUTHERN REGION U.S. has the most Tornadoes SR3,236 CR2,987 ER 874 WR 305 T0T 7,402 ( )

NWS SOUTHERN REGION WFOs & EM Community Save Lives Unprecedented in size & time (9 days) 340 Tornadoes 39 Fatalities Averaged 19 Minute Lead Time Single largest 24 hour tornado outbreak 148 Tornadoes 330 Fatalities Up to 5 Minute Lead Time May 2003 OutbreakApril 1974 Super Outbreak

NWS SOUTHERN REGION Local WFOs Save Lives

NWS SOUTHERN REGION Local WFOs Save Lives Tornado Warning Lead Time Pre-local forecast offices and pre-radar Doppler radar installation WFOs become fully functional

NWS SOUTHERN REGION NWS SR Internet Site Serves as one-stop source of weather info. Developed with both partners and public in mind. –Easy navigation –Data given in the manner you need it. Increases public awareness and response to valuable NWS 24 x 7 products and services.

NWS SOUTHERN REGION NWS SR Internet Site Forecasts obtained by either postal zip code, city/state search, or by point and click map Weather Information in clear, concise format Emphasizes local WFO expertise

NWS SOUTHERN REGION New GIS Radar Imagery Available as time loops for Weather Service Radars New GIS Topographic Base Map Provides real time storm, movement, precipitation and now, velocity data!

NWS SOUTHERN REGION Local Convective Watches Watch County Notification Product Watch County Notification (WCN) Product –County Specific –County Specific - Tornado & Severe Thunderstorm (convective) Watches from your local experts at the WFO. –Updates –Updates - Expansion and cancellation of Watches by counties from your local WFO. –Status – Now t –Status – Now testing! Operational Nov 2005.

NWS SOUTHERN REGION Flood Safety Campaign. 30+ local, regional, and national partners. A Southern Region initiative, now National! Turn Around Don’t Drown TM

NWS SOUTHERN REGION StormReady ® Start in Tulsa – nationwide sites Improves community weather preparedness A Southern Region initiative, now National!

NWS SOUTHERN REGION Project JETSTREAM A weather learning tool for EMs, media, teachers, students, public, aviation and marine communities. Includes weather preparedness & safety tips. Includes all weather from thunderstorms to winter storms. A Southern Region initiative, now National!

NWS SOUTHERN REGION Mobile Weather All the weather info you need is now available on mobile devices! A Southern Region Initiative!

NWS SOUTHERN REGION The Future of the NWS Improvement will be through – “mesoscale (local scale) weather & climate information, modeling, forecasts and warnings ”

NWS SOUTHERN REGION

NWS SOUTHERN REGION (817) Would you like copies of the slides? Go To: At Left Margin Click on: Welcome from the Director At Left Margin Click on: “2005 National Severe Weather Workshop”