Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR Andrea Schumacher, CIRA/CSU Dan Brown and Ed Rappaport, NHC HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009.

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Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR Andrea Schumacher, CIRA/CSU Dan Brown and Ed Rappaport, NHC HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009

 Generally accepted that improvements to hurricane forecasts will benefit society  Longer lead times  more time to prepare  Better track forecasts  reduce areas warned and/or evacuated unnecessarily  However, quantifying these benefits is a difficult task  How much money will a better forecast save?  How many lives could be saved? HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009

 Use wind speed probability model to…  Develop an objective warning scheme that reasonably simulates official NHC warnings (building off previous work by M. Mainelli and M. DeMaria)  Artificially “improve” input forecasts, use warning scheme to diagnose changes in warning properties  Warning properties considered (links to societal benefits)  Coastal distance  Duration HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009

 Operational at NHC since 2006 (replaced Strike Probability Program)  Methodology  Samples errors from NHC track and intensity forecasts over last 5 years to generate 1,000 forecast realizations  Wind radii of realizations from radii CLIPER model  Calculates probabilities over domain from realizations  Versions for Atlantic, NE and NW Pacific  Current products  Cumulative and incremental probabilities  34, 50 and 64 kt winds  0, 12, …, 120 hr  Text and graphical products  Distributed via NHC web page, NDFD, AWIPS HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009

 Rerun MC probability model  Used 64-kt (hurricane force) wind probabilties  Used 36-h cumulative probabilities (best match for NHC hurricane warning criteria)  U.S. mainland hurricane warnings from (20 tropical cyclones)  343 breakpoints  Choose wind speed probability thresholds  p > p up –> put warning up  p take warning down HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009

First Guess (prior work, Mainelli/DeMaria) : p up = 10.0%, p down = 2.0% Best fit (MAE, R 2, POD, no misses) : p up = 8.0%, p down = 0.0% HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009 MCPNHC Average Distance Warned (mi) Average Warning Duration (hr) MCP Objective vs. NHC MAE, Distance (mi)65 MAE, Duration (hr)7 R 2, Distance0.94 R 2, Duration0.71 POD / FAR0.83 / 0.16

HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009 NHC Hurricane Warning Objective Scheme Warning

HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009

 Two steps needed  Use best tracks from ATCF to adjust tracks and intensities closer to observed values  Scale the sampled track (intensity) errors in the Monte Carlo scheme  For this study, 20% and 50% error reductions used  Apply objective hurricane warning scheme to MC wind speed probabilities based on “improved” forecasts HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009

Avg Distance = mi Avg Duration = 33.6 hr We’re closer.. Developed relationship between forecast improvements and warning length & duration… but what are these worth to society?

HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May % Track and Intensity Forecast Improvement 50% Track and Intensity Forecast Improvement Warning Reductions Length (blue) ~50mi Duration ~ 7 h Warning Reductions Length (blue) ~ 100mi Duration ~ 6 h Million Dollar Question: What is the socioeconomic cost of an over-warning (and hence what is saved by reducing over-warnings)?

 Future work to focus on understanding the impacts of official hurricane warnings on…  Issuance of evacuations (EM’s) ▪Would a reduced warning area lead to a reduced evacuation area?  Evacuation behavior ▪Important social science research topic, past and present ▪Requires understanding of risk perception and individual response  Cost of evacuations ▪Jarell and DeMaria 1999 suggested $600k/mile ▪Whitehead 2003 shows how variable this number is, depending on location ▪Researchers at the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M are collecting data on these costs, hope to integrate into the Emergency Management Decision Support System in the future (M. Lindell, personal communication) HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009

 An objective hurricane warning scheme was developed  Scheme issues hurricane warnings when p>8% and lowers warnings when p=0%  Scheme simulates official NHC hurricane warnings from relatively well  20-50% improvement in both track & intensity forecasts yields  mile (5-13%) reduction in coastal length overwarned  2-5 hr (8-24%) reduction in warning duration  Future work to focus on quantifying the socioeconomic value of these warning reductions HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009

 DeMaria, M., J. A. Knaff, R. Knabb, C. Lauer, C. R. Sampson, R. T. DeMaria, 2009: A New Method for Estimating Tropical Cyclone Wind Speed Probabilities. Wea. Forecasting, Submitted.  Jarell, J.D. and M. DeMaria, An Examination of Strategies to Reduce the Size of Hurricane Warning Areas. 23 rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Dallas, TX, Janurary  Lindell, M.K. and C.S. Prater, 2007: A hurricane evacuation management decision support system (EMDSS). Natural Hazards, 40,  Whitehead, J.C., 2003: One million dollars per mile? The opportunity costs of Hurricane evacuation. Ocean and Coastal Management, 46, HFIP Workshop, 4-8 May 2009