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Back-to-Back Pacific Storms to Impact the West Coast; Heavy Snow in the Central Appalachians

Back-to-back powerful Pacific storm systems to impact the Pacific Northwest and northern California through the end of this week with heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and higher elevation mountain snow. A strong, long-duration atmospheric river will accompany the Pacific storms, bringing excessive rainfall and flash flooding to southwest Oregon and northwest California through the week. Read More >

The Tsunami Exercise CARIBE WAVE 22 will be on March 10, 2022

Register for CARIBE WAVE 2022

 

CARIBE WAVE 22 Scenarios by Member State/Territory   *scenarios decided by Caribe Wave organizers per Exercise Handbook

Western Muertos Trough Northern Panama
Antigua and Barbuda Belize
Aruba Costa Rica
Bahamas Guatemala
Barbados Guyana
Brazil Honduras
Colombia Jamaica
Cuba Mexico
Curacao Nicaragua
Dominica Panama
Dominican Republic Santa Lucia
France (Guadeloupe, French Guyane, Martinique, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Grenada UK - Cayman Islands
Haiti  
NL- (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba)  
Saint Kitts and Nevis  
Sint Maarten  
Suriname  
Trinidad and Tobago  
UK - (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos)  
US - (Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands)  
Venezuela  

 

Final Documents

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Exercise Documents

  • Participant Handbook - PDF
  • IOC Circular Letter - PDF
  • Post-exercise questionnaire - Link | PDF

Supporting Documents

  • Western Muertos Trough scenario - KMZ
  • Northern Panama scenario - KMZ
  • PTWC Enhanced Products User's Guide - PDF
  • PTWC Communication Plan - PDF
  • Manual and Guides 86 on Multi-annual Community Tsunami Exercise Programme - PDF
  • CATAC Products - PDF
  • CW22 Task Team - PDF

Webinars

  • Webinar 1
    • English (January 18, 2022) - video | PDF
    • Español (19 de enero de 2022) - video | PDF
    • Français (20 janvier 2022) - video | PDF
  • Webinar 2 
    • English (February 15, 2022) - video | PDF
    • Español (16 de febrero de 2022) - video | PDF
    • Français (17 février 2022) - video | PDF
  • Hot-Wash 
CARIBE WAVE VIDEOS
EN - UNESCO/IOC Caribe Wave Exercise https://vimeo.com/684809796
SP - Ejercicio Caribe Wave UNESCO/COI https://vimeo.com/684839860
FR - UNESCO/COI Exercise Caribe Wave https://vimeo.com/684841540

Additional Resources

 

 

 

 

For questions please contact:

christa.vonh@noaa.gov - Deputy Director ITIC-CAR

elizabeth.vanacore@upr.edu - Caribe Wave Chair