Tropical Cyclone Coverage At The Weather Channel

• INFORMATION• FORECASTS• IMPACTS• UNCERTAINTY• OUTREACH &

EDUCATION

What does The Weather Channel attempt to tell the public?

• Official forecasts• Official

watches/warnings• Uncertainty*• Potential impacts*• Real-time impacts via

live video*• (when it is “safe”)

Track Uncertainty

• The root of over warning

• Not always the same• Not the same as

landfall uncertainty

Forecast Track Uncertainty

WIND IMPACTS

• Damage related to wind speed squared

• Damage starts near 50 mph

• Locally complex due to flying debris & varied construction

• Often wind direction & duration dependent

Lili- Cat 1 at landfall

Inland Wind Impacts

Dvorak On-Air!

TWC Tropical Cyclone Wave Forecasts/Impacts

• 1)

SURGE IMPACTS

High Resolution Coastal Mapswith Topography in 2003!

TROPICAL CYCLONE RAIN POTENTIAL-NOT RELATED

MUCH TO STRENGTH!

Hurricane Floyd Rainfall

TWC EM Bulletins

• Available for all coastal states

• Your message not ours• Far reaching• Can prevent

shadow/over-evacuations

• Can save lives!

TWC EM BULLETINS

• Local EM information out through state EM

• Every state has protected web site

• Able to pick county (s) • Able to write

message(s)• Able to update/change

any time!

THE WEATHER CHANNEL HURRICANE COVERAGE

• We supply timely & accurate Emergency Management information on-air

• We are professional and consistent with hurricane forecasts and live coverage

TWC LIVE COVERAGE

• Safety first• Well-planned• Constraints• Reminding the public• Seeing is believing

Education & Outreach

• TWC talks and presentations• TWC teaching tools• TWC collaboration: NWS/FEMA/EDUCATION• TWC public service• TWC packages/stories• TWC science fair participation

TWC’s other information sources

• TWC radio• TWC .com

• can be very• important• when cable is• out!