Tropical Cyclone Coverage At The Weather Channel

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Tropical Cyclone Coverage At The Weather Channel

• INFORMATION
• FORECASTS
• IMPACTS
• UNCERTAINTY
• OUTREACH EDUCATION

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What does The Weather Channel attempt to tell the
public?

• Official forecasts
• Official watches/warnings
• Uncertainty
• Potential impacts
• Real-time impacts via live video
• (when it is safe)

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Track Uncertainty

• The root of over warning
• Not always the same
• Not the same as landfall uncertainty

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WIND IMPACTS

• Damage related to wind speed squared
• Damage starts near 50 mph
• Locally complex due to flying debris varied
  construction
• Often wind direction duration dependent

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Lili- Cat 1 at landfall
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Inland Wind Impacts
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Dvorak On-Air!
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TWC Tropical Cyclone Wave Forecasts/Impacts

• 1)

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SURGE IMPACTS
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TROPICAL CYCLONE RAIN POTENTIAL-NOT RELATED MUCH
TO STRENGTH!
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TWC EM Bulletins

• Available for all coastal states
• Your message not ours
• Far reaching
• Can prevent shadow/over-evacuations
• Can save lives!

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TWC EM BULLETINS

• Local EM information out through state EM
• Every state has protected web site
• Able to pick county (s)
• Able to write message(s)
• Able to update/change any time!

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THE WEATHER CHANNEL HURRICANE COVERAGE

• We supply timely accurate Emergency Management
  information on-air
• We are professional and consistent with hurricane
  forecasts and live coverage

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TWC LIVE COVERAGE

• Safety first
• Well-planned
• Constraints
• Reminding the public
• Seeing is believing

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Education Outreach

• TWC talks and presentations
• TWC teaching tools
• TWC collaboration NWS/FEMA/EDUCATION
• TWC public service
• TWC packages/stories
• TWC science fair participation

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TWCs other information sources

• TWC radio
• TWC .com
• can be very
• important
• when cable is
• out!