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Extratropical Storm Surge Alaska Focus Groupgs: Final Report
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2015
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Description:At present, the NOAA National Weather Service’s (NWS’s) storm surge forecasting and messaging efforts relating to extratropical (ET) systems are separate from efforts relating to tropical cyclone (TC) storm surge. Beginning with the 2015 hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center will offer an experimental storm surge watch/warning product to highlight areas along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States that have a significant risk of life- threatening inundation by storm surge from a TC. Beginning in 2017, NOAA proposes to expand the storm surge watch/warning to ET storms. NOAA tasked Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG) with conducting social science research to ascertain the ways in which ET storm surge dangers are currently communicated to communities (both in text and graphics) and potential barriers to implementing the storm surge watch/warning for ET events. ERG traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, in December 2014 and conducted focus groups with Weather Forecast Office (WFO) staff, emergency managers (EMs), radio and television broadcasters, and Alaskan tribal community members.
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