Public notice of proposed changes

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Public Information Notice

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

820 AM EST Fri Dec 5 2014

TO: Subscribers:

-Family of Services

-NOAA Weather Wire Service

-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network

-NOAAPORT

-Other NWS Partners and NWS employees

 

FROM: Michael Angove

NWS Tsunami Program Manager

 

SUBJECT: Soliciting Comments until February 6, 2015, on Proposed

TsunamiReady Guidelines

 

NWS is accepting comments until February 6, 2015, on proposed

TsunamiReady Guidelines.

 

The TsunamiReady Guidelines have been in place and unchanged

since 2001. The NWS began reviewing the guidelines to consider

updating them in 2007. In 2010, at the urging of the National

Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) Coordinating Committee, a contract was awarded to social scientist Dr. Chris Gregg of East Tennessee State University. Dr. Gregg's research team conducted a series of focus groups with emergency managers and community stakeholders to solicit feedback on proposed updated guidelines. Dr. Gregg submitted a report of recommendations for changes to the Guidelines to NOAA in April, 2014.

In June through October, 2014, the National Weather Service conducted 12 online and in-person discussions about the proposed Guidelines and incorporated changes based on those discussions.

 

As a result and in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Tsunami Program, NWS Weather Forecast Offices, and the NTHMP, a proposed set of TsunamiReady Guidelines were created and are open for public review and comment.

These guidelines correspond with ongoing improvements to the NWS StormReady Guidelines, which have been made to better align the program with the framework emergency managers are accustomed to working in: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery.

 

The proposed TsunamiReady Guidelines are online at:

 

http://nws.weather.gov/nthmp/tr/

 

Following the comment period, NWS will evaluate all received

comments and decide how to proceed.

For more information, or to provide feedback, please contact:

 

Rocky Lopes

TsunamiReady Program Coordinator

NOAA/National Weather Service

Silver Spring, MD 20910

Tel: (301) 427-9380

Email: rocky.lopes@noaa.gov

 

National Public Information Notices are online at:

 

http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

 

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