North & Central Georgia Partners Workshop (IWT)

[ATL IWT logo] North and Central Georgia (Atlanta) Integrated Warning Team /

Partners Workshop

December 4, 2018

Georgia Tech Research Institute – Conference Center

What is an Integrated Warning Team (IWT)?

An IWT is an ad-hoc “team” of people/entities who are involved in the preparedness and response to high-impact weather event.

An IWT Workshop is a meeting of IWT team members to discuss best practices, challenges, and ways to improve preparedness and response, and specifically to disseminate a unified message during severe/high-impact weather events.

Who is part of an IWT?

An IWT primarily consists of the National Weather Service (NWS), Emergency Management (EM) (local, state, and federal) and broadcast media.

The IWT also includes (though is not necessarily limited to) school/university officials, first responders, transportation officials (ground and air), healthcare officials/organizations, power companies, forestry and agricultural groups, the U.S. Geological Survey, amateur radio operators, officials with large event/outdoor venues, and private companies (especially those involved with weather, safety/security, and emergency management). Again, anyone involved in the preparedness and response to high impact weather.

One of the primary objectives of these workshops is to bring together these diverse groups of decision makers that depend on, and help relay, critical weather information. We also want to continue learning (and sharing) roles, responsibilities, and challenges that face our emergency managers, our TV, radio, and print media, and even our private sector partners. New insight to this year's winter outlook, along with evolving decision support services (IDSS) that the National Weather Service (NWS) is providing will also be discussed.

Workshop Pictures:

2018 IWT Agenda -- Click here to view the agenda

Presentations:

1. 2018-19 Winter Outlook + NWS Decision Support Tools & Resources (Dave Nadler / NWS Atlanta) click here for PPT

2. Interactive Scenario on Winter Weather (led by Jason Deese / NWS Atlanta) click here for PPT

3. Interactive Scenario on Tropical Weather (led by Laura Belanger / NWS Atlanta) click here for PPT

Notes + Polling results from Scenarios **coming soon**

Additional Information / Past Workshops:

** NWS (Atlanta) Winter Weather WATCH / WARNING / ADVISORY Criteria (does not include IMPACTS factored into decision making)

** Instructions setting up NWSChat for mobile devices:

> click here for iPhones (Monal)

> click here for Androids (Xabber)