Impact Based Warnings
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  Project
Goals

  • Provide additional valuable infromation to media and Emergency Management officials
     
  • Facilitate improved public response and decision making
     
  • Better meet societal needs in the most life-threatening weather events
     

  Intended Outcomes

  • Optimize the convective warning system within the existing structure
     
  • Motivate proper response to warnings by distinguishing situational urgency
     
  • Realign the warning message in terms of societal impacts
     
  • Communicate recommended actions & precautions more precisely
     
  • Evaluate ability to distinguish between low impact and high impact events
     

  Enhancing Warnings Through

  • Improve communication of critical information
     
  • Make it easier to quickly identify the most valuable information
     
  • Enable prioritization of key warnings in your area of interest
     
  • Indicate different levels of risk within the same product
     
  • Enable the National Weather Service to express a confidence level of potential impacts
     
   

 

 

 

 


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