Severe thunderstorms are forecast through this weekend along a slow moving cold front and secondary storm system that will impact areas from the southern Plains to the Great Lakes. Large hail and isolated damaging wind gusts are the main threats with these storms along with a risk for heavy to excessive rainfall which could bring flooding. Read More >
NWS Jackson forecasters trained together with our partners during our Winter Season Training Day on Thursday November 19th.
As part of the exercise, our forecasters assembled a briefing package for a winter weather event using our Weather Event Simulator. The next step was to deliver this briefing to a team of core partners, simulating the real life interactions which take place between an Incident Management Team and an onsite meteorologist. After the briefings were complete, all of our forecasters and our partners assembled in our operations area to talk about the exercise and the ramifications of the forecast.
One of the most beneficial parts of the exercise was hearing how our forecasts affected our partner's operations and how they would react to the information we briefed them. We also learned what works well in our briefings and what we can do better. The local relationships built in exercises like this will prove invaluable as we continue to move toward a Weather Ready East Kentucky!
We want to thank the following people and organizations for participating in our exercise:
Here are some pictures from the exercise...
General Forecaster Jane Marie Wix (left) and Senior Forecaster Chuck Greif (right) briefing the team. |