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Pacific Storm Impacting Hawaii; Atmospheric River Brings Precipitation to the Pacific Northwest and Northern California

A strong weather system will bring the potential for flash flooding, severe thunderstorms, strong to locally damaging non-thunderstorm winds, and high elevation snow to the Hawaiian Islands. Precipitation will overspread most of the eastern third of the country. A prolonged atmospheric river will bring low elevation rain and mountain snow to the Pacific Northwest and California into the Rockies. Read More >

The Tsunami Exercise CARIBE WAVE 21 was on March 11, 2021

 

CARIBE WAVE 21 Scenarios by Member State/Territory   *scenarios decided by Caribe Wave organizers per Exercise Handbook

Jamaica Northern Lesser Antilles
Belize Antigua and Barbuda
Colombia Aruba
Costa Rica Bahamas*
Cuba Barbados
Guatemala Brazil
Haiti Dominica
Jamaica Dominican Republic
Mexico

France

Guadeloupe     Martinique     Saint Barthelemy

Saint Martin     French Guyane*

Nicaragua Grenada

Panama

Guyana

United Kingdom

Cayman Islands

Honduras

 

Netherlands

Bonaire     Curacao     Saba    

Sint Eustatius     Sint Maarten*

  St. Kitts and Nevis
  Saint Lucia*
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines*
  Suriname*
  Trinidad and Tobago
 

United Kingdom

Anguilla*     Bermuda     British Virgin Islands

Montserrat*     Turks and Caicos*

 

United States

Puerto Rico     US Virgin Islands

  Venezuela

Final Documents

  • Evaluation Report - PDF
  • Media report - PDF
  • Final presentation - PDF
  • Supplement - PDF

Exercise Documents

  • Participant Handbook - PDF
  • IOC Circular Letter - PDF
  • Post-exercise Questionnaire - PDF

Supporting Documents

  • Jamaica scenario - KMZ
  • Northern Lesser Antilles scenario - KMZ
  • PTWC Enhanced Products User's Guide - PDF
  • Experts Meeting on Sources of Tsunamis in the Lesser Antilles - PDF
  • Multi-Annual Community Tsunami Exercise Programme - PDF
  • Caribe Wave 21 Press Release by EAS Puerto Rico - PDF
  • Presentation for Emergency Managers by PRSN- PDF

Webinars

  • Webinar 1 
    • English (January 26, 2021) - video | PDF
    • Español (27 de enero de 2021) - video | PDF
    • Français (28 janvier 2021) - video | PDF
  • Webinar 2 
    • English (February 23, 2021) - video | PDF
    • Español (24 de febrero de 2021) - video | PDF
    • Français (25 février 2021) - video | PDF
  • Caribe Wave 21 Hot-Wash - PDF

Additional Resources

 

 

 

For questions please contact:

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

elizabeth.vanacore@upr.edu - Caribe Wave Chair