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<br />Thursday. July 11 <br /> <br />9:15-10:308.m. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />National Weather Service Modernization: <br />Enhancing Flash Flood Warning Coordination <br /> <br />Christopher R. Adams <br />National Weather Service <br /> <br />Since the Big Thompson Flood, the National Weather Service (WS) has undertaken a $3 Billion <br />modernization and associated restructuring. The main goal of this is to enhance warning <br />services for the protection of life and property. To do this, the NWS has focused in three areas: <br />advancements in science, modernized technologies, and enhanced human systems for warning <br />coordination and communication. <br /> <br />Advancements in science include better understanding and modeling of atmospheric and <br />hydrological phenomenon and enhanced prediction of the precursors of hazardous events. The <br />modernized technologies including GOES satellites, WSR-88D weather radar, ASOS observing <br />systems, A WIPS computer processing systems at each office, and advanced super computer at <br />NCEP for complex atmospheric modeling. <br /> <br />The focus here is on the third component of enhancing the human or social systems to fully . <br />utilize the advances brought by the other components of the modernization. These include <br />incorporating social science research on hazards warning into operations of the NWS. These <br />include: building Federal, state and local warning partnerships; joint NW A/FEMA hazards <br />specific and warning coordination training for emergency managers; developing effective <br />warning messages to communicate risk: to local officials and the public; and expanding warning <br />communications capabilities to ensure consistence of message. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />I <br />