From Flooding to Drought Barbara Watson Meteorologist-in-Charge National Weather Service Binghamton Forecast Office.

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From Flooding to Drought Barbara Watson Meteorologist-in-Charge National Weather Service Binghamton Forecast Office

NWS New Strategic Plan 2020 Impact Based Decision Support Services Focuses on providing customers and partners with Impact Based Decision Support Services Social Scientists Works with Social Scientists to better understand how weather and flooding impact society and how people respond to weather threats and warning messages collaborating agencies and partners Works closer with collaborating agencies and partners to more effectively achieve goals climate and environmental More emphasis on climate and climate and environmental impacts

Water Forecasting Challenges Benefits Forecast Lead Time Protection of Life & Property Hydropower Recreation Ecosystem State/Local Planning Environment Flood Mitigation & Navigation Agriculture Health Commerce Reservoir Control Forecast Uncertainty Weeks Months Seasons Years Days Hours Minutes

Degrees of Decision Support General Access to NWS Information Sector-Specific Decision Support Information Organization-Specific Decision Support Information Group Decision Assistance Individual Decision Assistance All NWS Customers / Partners Increasing adaptation of NWS information for specific decision(s) Increasingly direct interaction between NWS and decision makers

General NWS Information Updated every 3 hours and available via web and NOAA weather radio

Sector Specific Decision Support Aviation Marine Fire Management Water Management

Photos Courtesy NYC DEP New York City Reservoirs Organization Specific Decision Support Services

Group Decision Support Prior to Significant Weather Events: Webinars Conference Calls To State and County EOCs and other key partners To help prepare, respond and mitigate against potential harm to public and property

Individual Decision Support for Significant Weather Incidents County Emergency Operations Center Incident Meteorologist (IMET) can provide on-site briefings Hurricane impacts and aftermath, Significant Floods, Significant Ice Storm, localized high impact incident Briefings to county from the weather office Rapid changing/critical decisions can go to on-site support with a meteorologist in the EOC or at the Incident Command Post Can arrive with our own equipment and communications

Individual Decision Support for Non-Weather Incidents State Emergency Operations Center Incident Meteorologist (IMET) can provide on-site briefings HAZMAT incidents, oil spill, train wreck, airplane crash, potential dam break, terrorist incident, nuclear power plant

Individual Decision Support to Incident Command for Large Public Events Incident Command Center IMET on-site - - or - - Briefings to incident command from Local NWS office with preset criteria to ensure public safety Watkins Glen NASCAR 2009 – just 1 min before race time Binghamton Spiedie Fest and Balloon Rally – Winds over 12 mph become unsafe for public and balloon operations New York State Fair – 3 people killed in 1998 from a line of severe thunderstorms with extreme winds

Individual Decision Support to help with Preparedness and Mitigation Hazard Mitigation Risk Assessment Safety & Preparedness Education StormReady Specialized Training Exercises Drills

Sighting of automated weather stations and gages Quality control and assimilation of data Training Observers Individual Decision Support to Monitor and Observe Environmental Data Conklin, NY River Gage house Cooperative Observer Station Measuring rainfall