NOAA

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NOAAs National Weather ServiceandAll-Hazards
Dissemination

• National Severe Weather Workshop 2005
• March 3, 2005

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Topics

• NWS All-Hazards Mission
• HazCollect and DMIS
• Some Challenges

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NWS All-Hazards Mission

• NWS primary mission to provide environmental
  forecasts and warnings for protection of life and
  property and the enhancement of the national
  economy.
• DHS National Response Plan (NRP) Communications
  Annex (ESF 2) tasks NOAA/NWS to provide public
  dissemination of critical pre and post event
  information
• Effective and timely public warnings saves lives,
  reduces property losses, and speeds economic
  recovery when an emergency occurs.

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All Hazards MessagesWhat Do We Mean?

• All Hazards emergency messages include
• Natural Hazards (tornadoes, hurricanes, floods,
  earthquakes)
• Accidents (chemical releases, oil spills, nuclear
  power plant emergencies, maritime accidents,
  train derailments)
• Terrorism
• AMBER Alerts
• Criteria to disseminate Non-Weather Emergency
  Messages (also known as civil emergency
  messages)
• Public safety is involved
• Message comes from an official government source
• Information is time critical
• Broadcast of Non-Weather Emergency Messages
  entails
• Message collection, authentication, and
  dissemination

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Non-Weather Emergency Message (NWEM) Types

• Administrative Message ADR
• Avalanche Warning AVW
• Avalanche Watch AVA
• Child Abduction Emergency CAE
• Civil Danger Warning CDW
• Civil Emergency Message CEM
• Earthquake Warning EQW
• Evacuation Immediate EVI
• Fire Warning FRW

• Hazardous Materials Warning HMW
• Law Enforcement Warning LEW
• Local Area Emergency LAE
• Network Message Notification NMN
• 911 Telephone Outage Emergency TOE
• Nuclear Power Plant Warning NUW
• Radiological Hazard Warning RHW
• Shelter in Place Warning SPW
• Volcano Warning VOW

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HazCollect Overview

• HazCollect Supports NWS All-Hazards Mission
• A nationwide capability to streamline the current
  manual creation, authentication, and collection
  of all types of non-weather emergency messages in
  a quick and secure fashion for subsequent alert,
  warning and notification purposes.
• HazCollect allows pre-approved and authenticated
  external emergency managers at the Federal,
  state, and local levels to submit messages for
  broadcast over NWR, NWWS, NOAAPORT, NWSTG driven
  dissemination systems, and the Emergency Alert
  System (EAS) for the purpose of warning the
  public.

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HazCollect Overview
All Hazards Emergency Messages
To Re-distributors Public Consumers
NWEM (CEM) Format
NWEM (CEM)Format
CAP Format
EMWIN
other
Other EM Interfaces
NWS Telecom Gateway(TG)
NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS)
Other EM Systems (DisasterHelp.gov, State EMAs,
etc.)
Emergency Managers
EAS
Future
WFO AWIPS
WFO AWIPS
Internet
HazCollect
DMIS
AWIPS
DMIS EM Toolkit
NOAA WEATHER RADIO
NWS WFOs
NWS
FEMA
Dialup
Emergency Managers
Backup Process (Voice Phone)
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Where is DMIS used?

• American Samoa (AS)

As of 11/23/04

• Total 1000 User groups
• 104 State/Regional User groups
• (Coverage 50 States)
• 33 DHS FEMA User groups
• (Coverage 8 FEMA Regional Offices)
• Total 142 Federal National User groups
• (Coverage 20 Federal Agencies Tribal)
• - 22 NGO User Groups
• 46 Vendors Participating in Interoperability

Currently executing state-wide roll-out
States with 10 User Groups
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Disaster Management Interoperability Services
(DMIS)
1000 user groups 50 states
67 real incidents 335 exercises
Serving the Emergency Management Community

• Core incident management tool set and shared
  services
• Exchange of information across geographical and
  governmental
• boundaries
• Alerts, national maps, specific needs request,
  and
• tactical information exchange

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Challenges

• EAS still unprepared to use the new event codes
  introduced in 2002 - almost 3 years ago!
• As one official said Program all event codes
• Dormant until used, if used
• Existing EAS not fully utilized
• Use existing capabilities effectively
• Write and improve EAS Plans
• Evolve to new technologies

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NOAAs National Weather Service

• Herb WhiteDissemination Services Manager
• NOAAs National Weather Service
• Office of Climate, Water, and Weather
  Services301-713-0090 ext. 146Herbert.White_at_noaa
  .gov

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• Backup Slides

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Sample NWEM

• WOUS40 KSDF 101736
• HMWSDF
• KYZ030-101828-
• BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
• HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WARNING
• JEFFERSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
• RELAYED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
  LOUISVILLE KY
• 129 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003
• A HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF
  JEFFERSON COUNTY
• KENTUCKY HAS BEEN ISSUED BY THE JEFFERSON COUNTY
  KENTUCKY EMERGENCY
• MANAGEMENT AGENCY.
• THERE HAS BEEN AN ACCIDENT INVOLVING AN AMMONIA
  LEAK IN THE
• JEFFERSONTOWN AREA OF THE COUNTY. PERSONS NEAR
  THE 2500 BLOCK OF
• PLANTSIDE DRIVE SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
  CLOSE ALL WINDOWS
• AND DOORS...BLOCK OUTSIDE AIR...TURN OFF ANY AIR
  CONDITIONERS AND
• FANSAND BRING IN YOUR PETS. TURN ON YOUR
  TELEVISION OR RADIO FOR

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Non-Weather Emergency Message Public Delivery
Non Weather Emergency Message
Weather Forecast Office
NOAA Weather Radio
Weather Wire Service
Other NWS Dissemination Methods
Commercial Radio/TV (Emergency Alert System)
LEGEND
Commercial Vendors
Message delivered Message delivered if
appropriate receiver exists Message delivered
according to state plans
Voluntary
Public
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URLs for NWR, SAME, and EAS Information and
Documents

• NWS Home Page www.weather.gov or
  www.nws.noaa.gov
• NOAA Weather Radio Home Page www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr
  
• NWS NWR Directives
• NOAA Weather Radio Dissemination www.nws.noaa.gov
  /directives/010/pd01017010a.pdf
• NOAA Weather Radio System Management www.nws.noaa
  .gov/directives/010/pd01017011a.pdf
• All Hazards
• NWS All Hazards Emergency Message Web
  Page www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/allhazard.htm
• All Hazards NOAA Weather Radio Fact
  Sheet www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/resources/nwr_allhazar
  ds.pdf
• HazCollect Program www.nws.noaa.gov/os/hazcollec
  t/
• Emergency Alert System
• FCC EAS Report and Order www.fcc.gov/eb/eas
• NWS EAS Information Web Page www.nws.noaa.gov/om
  /NWS_EAS.htm
• AMBER Alerts and the NWS www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/A
  MBER_Alert_factsheet.pdf
• Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME)
• NWR SAME www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/nwrsame.htm