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Project Goals

• Provide additional valuable information to media and Emergency Managers


• Facilitate improved public response and decision making


• Better meet societal needs in the most life-threatening weather events
   

Intended Outcomes

• Optimize the convective warning system within the existing structure


• Motivate proper response to warnings by distinguishing situational urgency


• Realign the warning message in terms of societal impacts


• Communicate recommended actions & precautions more precisely


• Evaluate ability to distinguish between low impact and high impact events

Warnings enhanced by:

• Improving communication of critical information


• Making it easier to quickly identify the most valuable information


• Enabling users to prioritize the key warnings in your area of interest


• Providing different levels of risk within the same product


• Enabling the NWS to express a confidence level of potential impacts


• Highlighting storms that are particularly dangerous


• Allowing users and vendors to develop apps and tools for the public and broadcast meteorologists to better communicate areas of increased risk