1. Extreme Event Database Orientation
WAA Training
Phoenix, AZ
August 27-28, 2015

2. Outline Objective Accessing the Database Components Walk-through
Exercises

3. Objective
Objective: Identify and catalogue iconic or major extreme events, in 5 impact categories (drought, fire, flood, temperature extreme, wind), for each of 13 communities (later changed to 15). Document economic impacts, risk reduction activities, and efficacy of activities.
Sub-tasks
Database of extreme climate-related events for the 5 impact categories associated with each community
Gather impact information (as available) associated with each event, including: economic costs, damage reports, response actions and procedures, and lessons learned.
Deliverable: Inventory of major natural hazard events that have occurred in WAA communities since 1960, with a focus on recent years, an emphasis on trends and iconic impacts, and a catalogue of associated actions.

4. Accessing the Database
Google Drive
WAA Climate Extremes Products 2015
Extreme Event Database

5. Components Navigating the Climate Extremes Products (.doc)
Acronym list (.doc)
Five excel spreadsheets (.xls)
Hazard Resources (.doc)
Resources folder
Folder with drought index graphs

6. Components Navigating the Database (.doc) Acronym list (.doc)
Five excel spreadsheets (.xls)
Hazard Resources (.doc)
Resources folder
Folder with drought index graphs

7. Components Navigating the Database (.doc) Acronym list (.doc)
Five excel spreadsheets (.xls)
Hazard Resources (.doc)
Resources folder
Folder with drought index graphs

8. Components Navigating the Database (.doc) Acronym list (.doc)
Five excel spreadsheets (.xls)
Hazard Resources (.doc)
Resources folder
Folder with drought index graphs

9. Components Navigating the Database (.doc) Acronym list (.doc)
Five excel spreadsheets (.xls)
Hazard Resources (.doc)
Resources folder
Folder with drought index graphs
Above: Arizona folder
Right: Flagstaff folder

10. Components Navigating the Database (.doc) Acronym list (.doc)
Five excel spreadsheets (.xls)
Hazard Resources (.doc)
Resources folder
Folder with drought index graphs

11. Walk-Through

12. Exercises
What was the most severe drought year in Las Vegas according to county-level SPEI data? (This can be found in two different ways)
How much did the Fourmile Canyon Fire in Boulder County cost? What were other impacts?
What unique equipment will Park City use as a firebreak if needed?
How did Salt Lake City respond to severe flooding in late May-early June, 1983?
What useful flood documents does Boulder have? Find them in the resources folder.
When was the regional heatwave in 2013? What were some of the impacts in various cities?
Go to the National Weather Service (NWS) webpage on Heat in the Southwest.
How many people, on average, die from heat each summer in the greater Phoenix area?
What is the name of Arizona’s dust storm awareness campaign?

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