Hurrevac 2010 Training Course National Hurricane Program

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 2 Product of the FEMA/USACE HES Program Restricted distribution to over 8000 users worldwide Introduction to HURREVAC? Hurrevac is a hurricane tracking and evacuation decision tool for G ov’t EMA’s

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 3 Hurrevac2010 runs on Windows95 or higher, and a screen resolution (1024x768) or higher. Hurrevac is a stand-alone program The main installation file is 12Mbs in size Installing Hurrevac

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 4 What Data Sources Does Hurrevac Use? ??? Data from Official Federal Government Agencies

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 5 Forecast advisory are issued every 6 hours when storm is being tracked 2 or 3-hourly intermediate advisories are issued when the storm is near land The National Hurricane Center’s HURRICANE ADVISORIES

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 6 River Forecast Centers – river gages & floods Hydro-Meteorological Prediction Center – rainfall and 3-day quantitative precipitation NOAA – tide gages Other Hurrevac DATA Sources

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 7 What’s New in Hurrevac 2010? Hurrevac Version in window title. Time zone set by your laptop. Automatic download of new forecast data. Tree-view style program management. (No menu at top). Tab format to view map, text, and reports. Improved resolution on map. Improved graphics with transparency. State specific data is easier to download.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 8 Exploring the NEW Workspace TITLE BAR Version Number

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 9 Exploring the NEW Workspace TOP FUNCTION BAR also called “Monitoring Ribbon” contains a number of buttons to help manage the program.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 10 Exploring the NEW Workspace DATA DISPLAY WINDOW Maps, Text and Reports/Tables

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 11 Exploring the NEW Workspace DATA TREE FOR MAP allows you to select what you would like to see in the in the Map Tab

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 12 Exploring the NEW Workspace FUNCTIONS TREE allows you to customize map features, select reports or tables, use browsers and other utilities.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 13 Exploring the NEW Workspace MAP TOOLS Allows you to zoom in and out and pan as well as change the way your storm features appear on the map.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 14 VIEW TABS Exploring the NEW Workspace the view tabs allow you to save a variety of reports, tables or graphics so they can be quickly viewed by clicking on a tab.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 15 FUNCTION BAR (Monitoring Ribbon) Lets start with the Function Bar and the SETUP button.

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HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 17 TIME ZONE TAB

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 18 Update NOW Progress Bar Status Report Window

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 19 Print Button

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 20 The Report Button allows you to select a report or table from a list of options. You can also access these reports from the Function Tree which we will demo later.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 21 The LOG Button shows you a text log of recent monitoring and download activity.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 22 The yellow check mark in the upper right corner of the window appears when you are not using the latest version of Hurrevac. When you click on it the window below appears and tells you what version you have and the latest version available.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 23 HELP

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 24 1.Support documentation at Submit support questions at Call the Sea Island Software support line at (843) User Support Services

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HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 26 8.Current Storms Tab Data Tree The current tab is for active storms. A + sign means there’s storms in that basin. The number in () is how many storms are active Slide 46

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 27 Another item in the current TAB is the rainfall forecast. They are issued twice a day, around 8am and 8pm

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 28 Each time you turn on the River Gage layer Hurrevac downloads the latest gage information.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 29 Lets look at the Impacts button When you select a Gage you get this graph.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 30 Lets look at the Crests button Impacts describe the effects of floods for various stages

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 31 Crests show historic high and low water levels

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 32 Flood outlooks are currently issued once a day and provide a 5 day forecast. The legend at the bottom gives the 3 types of flooding

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 33 HURREVAC monitors over 100 coastal tide gages. When you turn them on they are downloaded. Updated every hour. Slide 58

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 34 When you click on a tide gage you’ll see a graph of expected tide and observed tide. A red arrow shows when the storm will be closest to gage.

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HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM Working with Archive TAB The archives TAB contains old storm data as well as historic rain, river, tide and flood data.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 37 The Exercise heading is populated with STM files that are located in a special ExerciseSTMFiles data directory.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 38 The Archives Tab contains storms that have Advisory data stored in them. These go back to 1995 and Andrew in 1992.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 39 Historical plots are for all other historic storms back to 1851 but show only the tracks of the storms. They have no advisory data.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 40 View Tabs The Map Display window also has Tab features that allow you to look at Advisories, the Tropical Outlook and other reports. When you select the + Tab the report selection window appears.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 41 MAP TOOLS Provide a quick and easy way of changing the appearance of the map and adding additional information.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 42 Zoom Tool - Click-and-Drag zooming Pan Tool - Click-and-Drag panning Extent Button - Left-click for full-extent right-click to zoom to local map. Zoom IN and OUT Buttons - Left-click for 20% zoom in or out, right-click for 40%

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 43 Move Storm AHEAD and BACK – Along the Track Line 1 hour/left-click, 6 hours with right-click. Automate Storm movement along Track NEXT and PREVIOUS Advisory Buttons – Select an advisory from Storm history 1 adv.-left-click, 3 adv.-right-click AHEAD BACK AUTO These work on the Active Storm

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 44 The ACTIVE Storm Can only have one ACTIVE Storm. Shows last advisory when activated.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 45 Tropical Storm Winds 39mph 50mph Winds Hurricane Winds 74mph What do the Circles and Colors represent?

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 46 Wind Range by hr.– Shows the extent of winds for a particular hour of the forecast. Forecast Wind Swath – Shows the extent of winds for first 72 hrs of the forecast Hourly Error Ellipse - Shows you the average Error for each hour along track Average Error Button – Shows you the average Error in the forecast track.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 47 Storm Track Labels Button – Allows you to turn labels on and off and set label criteria. Watches/Warnings Button - Allows you to turn W&W on & off and set display criteria. Wind Probabilities Button - Allows you to turn Wind Probabilities on & off

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 48 The Function Tree allows you to change storm features and text on the map, view reports, browse information and execute helpful utilities. Slide 90

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 49 The first 5 items under the Storm Features allow you to do the same thing as the corresponding Tool Bar Buttons only you check the boxes on and off.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 50 This item applies when you are looking at OLD advisories in a storm file. This feature allows you to turn the actual track on and off.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 51 This allows you to temporarily change the track of the storm

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 52 This allows you to display the last 3 or 6 advisory tracks over the current advisory

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 53 ANNOTATION. The sub-features here allow you to change your storm information box, change your advisory labels, add text to your map, edit wind tag placement, display Range Marks and turn the Disclaimer and Place names on and off.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 54 REPORTS. features under reports can be displayed in a view TAB or a stand alone window. They include: Storm Statistics, Who's in the Error Swath, Wind Decay or how far winds can go inland, Wind Timing, Evacuation Timing, How close the storm will come to you, Facilities Timing, Lists of who will get rain or who will get flooding

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 55 Wind Timing is the next function on the list. Note that all the computations done to determine wind timing information is based on the forecast's wind swath prediction.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 56 When you select a report for a single location you will see this window asking you to select a State and County.

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HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 59 Possible Action Day/Night Label Time Remaining Evacuation Option Settings Time & Date Wind speed and distance

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 60 Slide 110 The Closest Approach report shows the closest distance, point in time, and direction that a storm is forecasted to approach each county

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HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 62 The Rainfall Report lists all counties expected to get rain in the next 3 days. The Flood List shows all counties expected to have flood problems over the next 5 days.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 63 BROWSERS open up floating windows for the purpose of viewing available surge maps, county clearance time tables and for getting map coordinates and measurements.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 64 Advanced Features Ahead

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 65 The Evacuation Clearance Time Browser is used to view Hurricane Evacuation Study clearance times for a selected county.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 66 The Coordinates/Measurements Browser is used to determine the lat/long coordinates of a map location and to make measurements of distance.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 67 The Surge Map Browser is used to view the surge maps from the old Hurrevac2000 program.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 68 DEMO Browsers

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 69 Slide 120 The Utilities feature provides options for: Alternative Data entry Historical Storm displays Map default settings Evacuation option settings Decision Arc displays GIS export options and An Exercise Wizard

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HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 73 The Historical Scan allows you to find and display historical storms back to 1851 that went thru a specified area and meet a variety of criteria that you select.

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HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 75 DEMO

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HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 77 Lets you select the Hurrevac scenario, category, tourist occupancy and response rate that best fits the current storm.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 78 HURREVAC finds the Largest Storm Category from the Advisory and assumes you have a Medium Tourist Occupancy and a Medium Response Rate. Slide 130

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HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 80 Decision Time Alert - can be used to notify you of the first forecast advisory that puts the storm within 12 hours of an evacuation decision time for a select county and evacuation scenario.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 81 SAMPLE

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 82 The Decision Arc Tool provides a graphical means of showing your Decision Time for evacuation.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 83 ARC Setup… Allows you to select the decision Arc County or Parish and evacuation scenario.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 84 This is a graphic display of a decision arc for Mobile County. This shows the forecast hour of the advisory when the evacuation decision should be made. Hour 45

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 85 The GIS Export Tool creates shapefiles from HURREVAC's storm tracking display

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 86 Available Layers for Export 1.A forecast storm track. 2.A past storm track 3.Wind ranges 4.Wind swath 5.Error swath or error swath plus winds 6.Error ellipse (with or without winds) 7.MEOW (Max Envelope of Wind) 8.HPC rainfall isopleths for specified day. 9.NWS river flood outlook.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 87 Slide 140 When you execute the GIS Export function you will see a window that allows you to select which data you want to export.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 88 Then you’ll get a window Asking you where you want to save your data.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 89 The Exercise Track Wizard leads you through 5 steps to create a STM file of your own for an exercise.

HURREVAC 2010 TRAINING COURSENATIONAL HURRICANE PROGRAM 90 Steps 1.Set a start location and time and date for the storm. 2.Set an end location and time and date. Hurrevac then draws a straight line between the points and places all the 6 hour advisory points. 3.You move the advisory points where you want them to create the track you want. 4.You then edit each advisory the way you want it for track storm category and forward speed. 5.And last you name the storm and save it. Hurrevac HELP gives more detail on what to do in each step.

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