forecasting process: severe weather
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Forecasting process: Severe Weather. Early warning. Strive to ensure that every person or organization at risk 1. Receives the information 2. Understands the information 3. BELIEVES the information 4. Personalizes the risk 5. Make correct decisions 6. Respond in a timely manner. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Forecasting process: Severe Weather
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Early warning
Strive to ensure that every person or organization at risk1. Receives the information 2. Understands the information3. BELIEVES the information4. Personalizes the risk5. Make correct decisions6. Respond in a timely manner
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Early warning
Effective early warning should be:• Short, concise, understandable and actionable
• What, where, when, why, how to respond
Should be presented in several different formats – text-graphics-color coded categories-audio; should include specific actions for people to take in response to the event.
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Process
Identifying Severe Weather
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UKMO Model
5-7 Day Lead time
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NOAA Model
5-7 Day Lead time
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Unified Model24 Hour fine scale lead
time
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Web-based sources: QuickScat
5-7 Days: Issue an Advisory
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Keith Moir – Meteorologist – Cape Town Weather Office
>100mm in 24hour
24 Hour pictorial view of upcoming Severe weather
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Process: Current
Issuing and disseminating Warning
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Desktop
Warning
Distribution list
Issuing of Warning
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Posted on the Internet
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Television
Radio: KFM, Cape Talk, Tygerberg, CCFM, Voice of the Cape and many
others
Newspaper: Burger, Cape Times, Son, Argus, Local newspapers
Telephone: Recorded message- Vodacom Service
Telephone: Direct to Forecaster
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Process: Current
Monitoring and Amending warnings
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Keith Moir – Meteorologist – Cape Town Weather Office
Extra Tropical
Cyclone - Gamede
Old Tropical Cyclone -
Favio
Cold Front
Very Cold Air
Mass
Satellite images
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Thunderstorm
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Thunderstorm
Fog-Aviation Danger
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Thunderstorm
Fog-Aviation Danger
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High Resolution
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Super impose RADAR and Lightning Detection
LightningDetection
strikes
Cape TownWeatherRADAR
De AarWeatherRADAR
Radar
Lightning detection
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Severe Bottom storm
High likelihood of large hail
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Analysis of Routine observations
Surface
Upper air
Feedback from Disaster Managers and affected people
Warning Updates issued regularly until threat has passed
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Other Tools
Webcams
Independent Weather stations
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Process: Current
After Event
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Keith Moir – Meteorologist – Cape Town Weather Office
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Keith Moir – Meteorologist – Cape Town Weather Office
Any follow-up weather
Rescue mission conditions
Post-impact assessment: Meteorological Aspects
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New Severe Weather Alert System
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New Severe Weather Alert System
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New Severe Weather Alert System
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New Severe Weather Alert System
Way Forward:1. Re-define warning
criteria in conjunction with Disaster Management structures.
2. Educate People-Risks, Adequate Preparedness,
3. Keep abreast with Modern Technology- Dissemination of warnings
4. Keep abreast with advancements in Meteorology-, Climatology research
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South African Flash Flood Guidance System
Delineation of River Basins
Will Be Discussed Next
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Thank You For Your Time
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