The Central Region Impact-Based Warnings Demonstration - Findings from the 2012 Season
The goal of the IBW Demonstration is to measure how changes made to the warning products relate to the collective ability of the NWS, emergency management community and the media to assess, communicate, and manage severe convective weather risks. An evaluation of the effectiveness of 1) forecaster assessment of the potential impacts, 2) the packaging of the situational understanding about a storm event and its “urgency,” 3) the transfer of this knowledge to NWS partners (primarily emergency management and the media), and 4) whether and how that knowledge affects critical decisions such that the partners and the public alter their actions was conducted.
This presentation will summarize findings from information collected during the initial IBW Demonstration period (April through November 2012). These findings are based on interviews and surveys conducted with both NWS warning forecasters and partners and warning verification results, which will be used to further the IBW Demonstration in 2013.