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Impact Based Warnings
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Informational Video
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Locations Using Impact Based Warnings |
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Project
Goals
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- 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
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Intended Outcomes
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- 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
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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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