fema daily ops briefing for nov 18, 2013
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Federal Emergency Management Agency Operations Briefing for Monday, November 18, 2013 Presented by Homeland Security Jobs HQ at http://homelandsecurityjobshq.comTRANSCRIPT
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•Daily Operations Briefing Monday, November 18, 2013
8:30 a.m. EST
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Significant Activity: Nov 17 – 18 Significant Events: Severe Weather Outbreak
Tropical Activity:
• Atlantic – Area 1 (Invest 98L) (High - 90%)
• Eastern Pacific – Tropical cyclone activity not expected next 48 hours
• Central Pacific – No tropical cyclones expected through Tuesday night
• Western Pacific – No activity threatening U.S. territories
Significant Weather:
• Showers and thunderstorms – Gulf Coast to Northeast
• Moderate to heavy rain – Pacific Northwest and northern CA
• Heavy snow – Pacific Northwest, Northern Rockies and upper Great Lakes
• Elevated Fire Weather Areas: Central Plains; Red Flag Warnings – None
• Space Weather: Past 24 hours: none; next 24 hours Minor/R1 radio blackouts likely
Earthquake Activity: M7.8 – Scotia Sea (near South Sandwich Islands)
Declaration Activity: Major Disaster Declaration request – Nebraska
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Severe Weather Outbreak – Nov 17-18 Summary:
• Severe thunderstorms moved eastward across the Middle
Mississippi Valley, Lower Great Lakes, and Ohio Valley
• Producing:
• Straight-line winds up to 85 mph
• Golf-ball sized hail
• Tornadic activity (including at least one tornado preliminarily
rated as EF-4) to parts of IL, IN, MI and OH
Impacts
• Shelters:
• IL: 8 with 17 occupants
• IN: 2 with 5 occupants
• OH: 1 with no occupants (as of 7:00 am EST)
• 6 confirmed fatalities and 37 unconfirmed injuries in IL
• Power outages region wide: 650,895 (Peak 753,342) (DOE 5:00am
EST)
Source: Region V
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Severe Weather Outbreak – Nov 17-18
FEMA Region II
• RRCC not activated; RWC remains at Watch/Steady State
• NY SEOC activated to Level III
FEMA Region III
• RRCC not activated; RWC activated to Enhanced Watch
• Regional IMAT on Alert
• VA EOC activated to Level III
• All other SEOCs remain at Normal Ops/Monitoring
EMA Region IV
• RRCC not activated; RWC remains at Watch/Steady State
• All SEOCs at Normal Ops
FEMA Region V
• RRCC activated to Level II (with ESFs 3, 15 & DCO)
• IMAT deployed to IL; FEMA LNOs deployed to IL, OH and IN
• IN EOC activated to Level I; IL and OH EOCs activated to Level I
• All other SEOCs remain at Normal Ops Source: Region V
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Severe Weather Outbreak – Nov 17-18
Source: Region V
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Updates at 1:00 am/pm and 7:00 am/pm EDT
Atlantic – Tropical Outlook
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Atlantic – Area 1 (Invest 98L)
As of 7:00 a.m. EST
• Well defined non-tropical low pressure system located
740 miles ESE of Bermuda
• Moving N to NW at 10 mph
• Producing gale force winds
• Environmental conditions becoming more conducive for
subtropical or tropical storm to form later today or Tues
• Probability of tropical cyclone development:
• Next 48 hours: High chance (90%)
• Next 5 days: High chance (90%)
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http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo_epac.shtml
This product is updated at approximately 5 AM, 11 AM, 5 PM, and
11 PM PDT from May 15 to November 30. Special outlooks may be
issued as conditions warrant.
Eastern Pacific – Tropical Outlook
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http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/cphc/
This product is updated at approximately 5 AM, 11 AM, 5 PM, and
11 PM PDT from May 15 to November 30. Special outlooks may be
issued as conditions warrant.
Central Pacific – Tropical Outlook
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http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/noaa/noaad1.pdf
National Weather Forecast
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Active Watches/Warnings
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/largemap.php
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http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/day1-3.shtml
Precipitation Forecast – 3 Day
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
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http://water.weather.gov/ahps/forecasts.php?current_color=flood¤t_type=all&fcst_t
ype=fcst&conus_map=d_map
River Forecast – 7 Day
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Convective Outlooks Days 1 – 3
Day 2
Day 3
Day 1
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Critical Fire Weather Areas Days 1 – 8
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fire_wx/
Day 1 Day 2
Day 3-8
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NOAA Scales Activity (Range: 1/minor to 5/extreme)
Past
24 Hours Current
Next
24 Hours
Space Weather Activity: None None Minor
• Geomagnetic Storms None None None
• Solar Radiation Storms None None None
• Radio Blackouts None None R1
Space Weather
Sunspot Activity
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/drap/global.html http://spaceweather.com/
HF Communication Impact
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Earthquake Activity – International
M 7.8 – Scotia Sea
• Occurred at 4:05 am EST on November 17, 2013
• 741 miles SSE from Stanley, Falkland Island
• 800 miles SE from southern tip of Argentina
• Depth of 6.2 miles
• USGS issued a green PAGER alert indicating:
• Low likelihood of casualties and damage
• No population exposed to earthquake shaking
• No reports of injury or damage
• No tsunami generated
Stanley, Falkland Islands
Argentina
741 miles
800 miles
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Declaration Requests in Process Requests
APPROVED (since last report)
Requests DENIED
(since last report)
1 Date Requested 0 0
NE – DR Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Winter Storms, and Flooding November 13, 2013
Disaster Requests & Declarations
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Major Disaster Declaration Request - NE
November 13, 2013
• Major Disaster Declaration request for State of Nebraska
• For severe storms, tornadoes, winter storms and flooding that
occurred October 2- 6, 2013
• Requesting:
• Public Assistance for nine counties and the Omaha Tribe
• Hazard Mitigation statewide = Omaha Tribe
= Requested counties
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Joint Preliminary Damage Assessments
Region State /
Location Event IA/PA
Number of Counties Start – End
Requested Complete
IX CA Rim Fire
PDA Follow-up PA 1 1 11/12-11/14
X AK
Kenai Peninsula Southern Borough
Flooding
October 27-28, 2013
PA 1 0 11/19-11/21
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Open Field Offices as of November 18, 2013
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Total Deployed Detailed Not
Available Available Cadre Status
40 25 1 2 12
OFDC Cadre Member Status
Total Available Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Type 4
12* 1 6 2 3
As of: 11/15/2013
* All Type 1 FCOs are available unless deployed to a Level 1 event
Total Deployed Assigned Available Status
9 6 4 2
Federal Coordinating Officer
Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator
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MCOV Fleet / Deployment Status
Fully Mission Capable 55 Partially Mission Capable 0 Non-Mission Capable 0 Total Not Deployed 50
MCOV FLEET STATUS MCOV DISASTER SUPPORT DEPLOYMENTS
Location Units
Assigned Available
FMC Deployed
Committed PMC Unavailable DR-State OPCON
En
Route Unit Prep
Open
Request Notes:
MERS Maynard 3 3 0 0 0 DR-4145-CO 5 0 0
MERS Frederick 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0
MERS Thomasville 14 13 1 0 0 0 0 0
DC Ft Worth 20 16 4 0 0 0 0 0
MERS Denver 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
MERS Bothell 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sacramento 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 55 50 5 0 0 TOTAL 5 0 0 0
Units in route for turn-in included in above totals.
2 0 0
Data as of: 11/17/13 @ 1500
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IA Registration Statistics
IA Registrations and IHP Amounts as of November 17, 2013 @ 1500
DR/EM # - State Registrations Approved
Applicants Total HA Approved
Total ONA
Approved Total IHP Approved
4145 - CO 27,379 16,035 $49,577,693 $4,127,989 $53,705,682
Totals 27,379 16,035 $49,577,693 $4,127,989 $53,705,682
48 hour change +60 +36 +$147,653 +$26,295 +$173,949
NPSC Call Data for November 16, 2013
Total Calls Answered (Help Line + Registration Intake) 523
Average time to answer call 11 seconds
Maximum / Minimum time to answer a call 16 seconds / 9 seconds
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Housing Inspection Statistics
Inspection Data as of November 17, 2013 @ 1500
DR #-State Inspectors Inspections
Assigned
Inspections
Completed Inspection % Complete
Turnaround Time
(Days)
4145 - CO 15 24,883 24,652 99.07% 2.3
TOTAL 15 24,883 24,652 99.07% 2.3
48 hour change -1 +114 +94 -0.08% 0.0
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IMAT Status National Teams
Team Status Team Status Team Status
Blue/White East CO West On Alert
Regional Teams Team Status Team Status Team Status
Region I Region V IL Region VIII SD
Region II Region VI-1 Region IX-1
Region III PA Region VI-2 NM Region IX-2
Region IV-1 Region VII KS Region X
Region IV-2 NC Incident Management Assistance Team
= Assigned/Deployed
= Not Mission Capable
= Available/Mission Capable
= Available/Partially Mission Capable
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Urban Search & Rescue INCIDENT SUPPORT TEAMS (Red-White-Blue) – Monthly On Call Rotation
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
WEST CENTRAL EAST
Team Status Team Status Team Status
CA-TF1 Available AZ-TF1 Available FL-TF1 Available
CA-TF2 Available CO-TF1 Available FL-TF2 Available
CA-TF3 Available IN-TF1 On Alert MA-TF1 Available
CA-TF4 Available MO-TF1 Available MD-TF1 Available
CA-TF5 Available NE-TF1 Available NY-TF1 Available
CA-TF6 Available NM-TF1 Conditional PA-TF1 Available
CA-TF7 Available NV-TF1 Conditional VA-TF1 Available
CA-TF8 Available TN-TF1 Available VA-TF2 Available
WA-TF1 Available TX-TF1 Available OH-TF1 Available
UT-TF1 Available
= Assigned/Deployed = Out-of-Service
= Available/Mission Capable = Available/Partially Mission Capable
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RRCC / Regional Watch Center Status
= Not Mission Capable = Available/Partially Mission Capable = Available/Mission Capable
Region RRCC Regional Watch Center
I Not Activated Maynard MOC (24/7)
II Not Activated 24/7
III Not Activated Enhanced Watch
IV Not Activated 24/7
V Level II 24/7
VI Not Activated Denton MOC (24/7)
VII Not Activated 24/7
VIII Not Activated Denver MOC (24/7)
IX Not Activated 24/7
X Not Activated Bothell MOC (24/7)
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National Team Status
Team/Status Current Location Remarks
National Watch Center Washington, DC Enhanced Watch (24/7)
NRCC Washington, DC Not Activated
HLT Miami, FL Activated
DEST Washington, DC Not Activated
Mission Capable Partially Mission Capable Not Mission Capable
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