National Weather Service



NTHMP Warning Coordination Subcommittee Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, February 7, 2012; 8:00am-noon

Marriott Mission Valley, San Diego, California

• 2011 Meeting Action Item Review

• June, 2011 WCS telecom Action Items

• Revision of term “Tsunami Amplitude” to “Tsunami Height”

• EAS Activation for Tsunami Advisories

• Tsunami Warning System Exercises

• Moving west coast comms test from Sept. to March in 2014?

• March, 2012 live code EAS test plans

• September, 2012 west coast EAS test plan

• Consider date for 2013 exercises

• Pac-Wave plans – international tsunami exercise for Pacific

• LANTEX/PACIFEX/PacWave Plans for 2012

• Post-warning effectiveness assessment process

• Summarized results from three 2011 events

• Suggestions to improve process

• TWC Products

• Product Improvement Team Summary

• Public Products – should they be continued?

• Tsunami travel times – should they be posted for non-w/w/a events?

• Estimate length of time w/adv in effect – should it be included in products?

• WFO Tsunami local statement – update

• PTWC Domestic Product Update

• Update on inundation map distribution during events and current forecasts (AI from 2011)

• TWC Procedures

• Review criteria for when Tsunami Information Statements are issued

• Major Warning level of alert

• NTHMP Strategic Plan WCS Measures and Milestones

• Annual Table-top exercise (2010)

• Develop decision support tools for EM response (2013)

• All states with high/very high hazard establish high level response structure (2012) – NAS rec. 14

• Increase % response to monthly comms. tests from 82% to 90%

• Conduct annual end-to-end test (EAS activation)

• Develop post-event review process (2009)

• Conduct post-event reviews

• Develop inventory of local warning dissemination capabilities by 2010

• Develop inventory of local warning reception capabilities by 2010

• Review WCS Core members (add CTWP Mgr.?)

• Review new Actions

Note that during the main meeting, sessions are also scheduled for:

• Japan tsunami response

• Tsunami Program social science project

• update

• USGS Tsunami Exercise

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