Configuring
AWIPS to Include Decision Support Events in Warnings
Decision
Support Services continue to take a larger role in day-to-day
operations at the local National Weather Service Forecast Office.
Previous attempts at including Decision Support Events directly in the
warnings were undertaken by the Central Region WarnGen Tiger Team and
included a selection to include a
special heads-up for outdoor events.
However, with an increased DSS role and a growing number of large
events, keeping track of these events to include in our warnings has
become increasingly difficult and time consuming. Several previous
efforts have made all DSS events and large event venues available to
AWIPS for inclusion in a warning. Unfortunately, these solutions would
mention events or venues, even when no event was ongoing and made no
discretion of attendance. In an attempt to improve upon these efforts,
this project expands upon previous groundbreaking work performed by
Doug Speheger, Evan Bookbinder and Mike Dangelo to allow adaptable,
dynamic displays within AWIPS. By introducing date/time based logic,
and WarnGen flagging, we have developed a solution that allows the
integration of DSS events into AWIPS on a dynamic approach, and one
that is expandable toward more novel housekeeping efforts, such as
Google Calendar.
This
presentation will focus on these issues and share
feedback from Emergency Managers about the success of including these
events directly in our warnings. In addition the criteria used to
determine the level of service Decision Support Events receive will be
explored.
Phillip G. Kurimski
National Weather Service, Detroit, MI
Evan Bookbinder
National Weather Service, Pleasant Hill, MO