The USA Disaster Situation Report
The Daily USA Disaster Situation Report
For January 7, 2000
Christopher Effgen, Editor, host{at}disastercenter.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> USA Daily Temperature Extremes
=> Special Notes
=> Current Active National Weather Service Warnings:
=> Severe Weather Probability Forecast
=> Precipitation Forecast, Excessive Rainfall, Heavy Snow And/Or Significant
Icing Forecast
=> USA Flood Report
=> USA Fire Report and Forecast
=> USA Earthquake Report
=> Yesterday's USA Severe Weather Reports
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=> Article EMC271 ALE Experiences 1/5 Release 1/8/01
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The Daily USA Disaster Situation Report
For January 7, 2000
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=> USA Daily Temperature Extremes
National Temperature Extremes
High Sun...80 At Poway CA
Low Mon...24 Below Zero At West Yellowstone MT
=> Special Notes
=> Current Active National Weather Service Warnings:
Active Warnings:
Updated Mon Jan 8 11:08:18 2001
Winter Storm
California
...WINTER WEATHER HEADED FOR THE SIERRA NEVADA THIS MORNING...
.A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BRING SNOW AND LOCALLY BREEZY
CONDITIONS TO THE SIERRA NEVADA AND SOUTHERN CASCADE RANGE THIS
MORNING.
TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM AROUND 4 INCHES AT
4500 FEET TO 8 INCHES OR MORE AT THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS.
Nevada
GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA-...SNOW ADVISORY ABOVE 7000 FEET TONIGHT AFTER
MIDNIGHT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON...
MONO COUNTY-..SNOW ADVISORY ABOVE 7000 FEET MONDAY...
4-8 INCHES OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED TO FALL ABOVE 7000 FEET BY LATE
MONDAY AFTERNOON...WITH 1-3 INCHES ABOVE 6000 FEET.
=> Severe Weather Probability Forecast
The forecast probability of an event is by the stated percentage or greater
for the event, within 25 miles of any point for the area described.
Tornado Risk - Slight
There is less than a 2% probability of a tornado.
Hail Risk - Slight
There is less than a 5% probability of hail 3/4 inch or larger.
Wind Risk - Slight
There is less than a 5% probability of winds in excess of 50 knots.
Tomorrow's Risk -
There is less than a 5% probability of any severe weather tomorrow.
=> Precipitation Forecast, Excessive Rainfall, Heavy Snow And/Or
Significant
Icing Forecast
Precipitation Forecast
The 24 hour precipitation forecast is calling for over 1 inch of
precipitation over a portion of southwest
central California.
The 24 - 48 hour precipitation forecast is calling for over 1 inch of
precipitation over northwest
Washington
Excessive Rainfall Forecast
Rainfall is not expected to exceed flash flood values.
USA heavy snow and/or significant icing
>From noon to midnight today EST the probability of 4 inches or greater of
snow is less than 20%
The probability of 1/4 inch or greater of ice accumulation is less than 20%
>From midnight to noon tomorrow EST the probability of 4 inches or greater of
snow is less than 20%
The probability of 1/4 inch or greater of ice accumulation is less than 20%
Current USA Snow and Ice Cover
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/us_NESDISsnow.gif
=> USA Flood Report
NATIONAL HYDROLOGIC SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
08:15 AM EST MON JAN 08 2001
FLOOD SUMMARY
NO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING
A FEW RIVERS IN EASTERN TEXAS INTO LOUISIANA REMAIN SLIGHTLY
ABOVE FLOOD STAGE WITH MINOR FLOODING.
FLASH FLOODING:
NO FLOOD/FLASH FLOOD AND/OR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD
ADVISORIES WERE ISSUED OVER THE PAST WEEKEND.
RIVER FLOODING:
RIVERS AND STREAMS WITH LOCATIONS EITHER ABOVE FLOOD STAGE OR
EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE INCLUDE:
ARKANSAS: THE OUACHITA RIVER
LOUISIANA: BAYOU DORCHEAT AND RED CHUTE BAYOU
TEXAS: THE SULPHUR, SABINE, ANGELINA AND NECHES RIVERS
=> USA Fire Report and Forecast
INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2001 - 1000 MST
NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL I
CURRENT SITUATION:
Three new large fires were reported this past week, two in Southern
California and one in Alaska. Initial attack activity occurred in the
Southern Area and Southern California. Very high to extreme indices were
reported in southern California and Arizona.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LARGE FIRES:
VIEJAS, CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST. Unified command of a Type 2 Incident
Management team (Conrad) and California Department of Forestry Team
(Barta) is managing the incident. This fire is southeast of Alpine, CA.
Northeast winds in excess of 65 mph pushed this fire along Interstate 8 on
01/03 and prompted evacuations of local residents. The wind direction has
now switched to a southwest flow allowing good progress to be made on all
flanks. Some of the evacuees have been allowed to return to their homes
and Interstate 8 has been reopened.
=> USA Earthquake Report
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION CENTER
GOLDEN, COLORADO
LISTS OF U.S. EARTHQUAKES IN THE LAST 30 HOURS
EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES
Prepared by USGS/NEIC 2001 JAN 07 at 00:15 UTC
EARTHQUAKES IN STATE OF ALASKA
Date Time (UTC) Lat Long Depth Magnitude
2001 JAN 6 09:38:02.94 51.3 N 174.8 W 33 km 4.2
70 miles SSW of Atka, Alaska
2001 JAN 6 09:25:36.48 51.4 N 175.0 W 33 km 4.5
65 miles SSW of Atka, Alaska
6.0 Mag. NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE
=> Yesterday's USA Severe Weather Reports
Note: All data is considered preliminary
Tornado Reports
No reports received
Hail Reports
No reports received
Wind Reports
No reports received
Fields marked UNK are unknown
All Times UTC
Wind Gusts in MPH
Hail Sizes in 1/100 of an Inch (75 = 0.75")
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=> President Approves FY 2001 Appropriations for NIST
On Dec. 21, 2000, President Clinton signed into law NIST's fiscal year
2001 budget appropriation of $598.3 million (84 percent of, or $114.7
million under, the President's FY 2001 request of $713 million). All of
NIST's four major programs were given sufficient funding to continue
promoting U.S. economic growth.
Highlighting the budget is $307.4 million for the NIST Laboratories (93
percent of, or $24.9 million under, the President's FY 2001 request);
$5.2 million for the Baldrige National Quality Program (equal to the
President's FY 2001 request); $145.7 million (which with $45 million in
carryover and recoveries totals $190.7 million for FY 2001, 96 percent
of the $198.6 million total proposed for FY 2001 use) for the Advanced
Technology Program, including $60.7 million for new awards in FY 2001;
and $105.1 million (92 percent of, or $9 million under, the President's
FY 2001 request) for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership to continue
providing the federal share of funding needed to support the network of
centers serving smaller manufacturers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
Finally, the appropriations provide $34.9 million (97 percent of, or $1
million under the President's FY 2001 request) for safety, maintenance
and capacity work on NIST's 30- to 45-year-old research facilities.
A 0.22 percent across-the-board rescission (agreed upon by the White
House and Congress as part of the final budget negotiations) will take
$1.3 million from the NIST FY 2001 appropriation.
A detailed history of the FY 2001 budget process is available on the NIST
web site (www.nist.gov;
click on "News" and then "Budget Updates").
=> EMC271 ALE Experiences 1/5 Release 1/8/01
The following query to our ACS Newsletter lead to this series.
Query: "Why is OES/ACS looking at ALE? Isn't it the same
technology as the less-than-successful STACOM? And aren't live
people faster at determining propagation and establishing
communications?"
Response: As to whether live people are faster at determining
propagation and establishing communications the answer is a very
definite _NO_. An ALE system can be much FASTER and far more
CONVENIENT. However, not all ALE systems meet that standard.
Now, for the details of our experiences with two ALE systems in
use at CA State OES. One is a very efficient system in constant
standby mode for contacts between California OES and FEMA. The
other had a long and difficult birthing process that resulted in
differences of opinion. That is the system we are re-evaulating.
In essence ALE (automatic link establishment) is a process where
two or more radios maintain periodic signaling between each so
that the knowledge of the optimum communications frequency is
available to each radio should there be a need to communicate
between them. Construction of the radio SYSTEM as well as the
RADIO directly affects the results. The two systems I will here
describe are quite different.
ALE can easily be described but incredibly complex to implement
in practice. It took us several years to develop and work out the
details of two ALE radio systems at State OES; one with Motorola
MICOM XF ALE radios, the other is a Harris ALE dual-rack mounted
radio with highly integrated systems such as diversity receivers,
a fault-finding controller and other items.
There is much more to using an ALE radio than just buying it and
putting it into service. What kind of system will is serve? Does
it need to communicate with another system already in place. Will
it be compatible with that of other manufacturers? Is it numeric
or alphanumeric addressing. How many addresses (one for each
radio) are needed? How many radios will you need, including
backups? What distances are covered and how scattered are the
locations? Will there be multiple ALE call groups and how many
radios will be in each group? How many frequencies will be
involved? Will the frequencies have other licensees operating
ALE as well as you? How will the ALE "sounding" be handled?
What station will be the "master"? (Sounding is the process of
sending out signals to be answered by other radios and then
recording the results into a RF path linkage table that tells the
radio the best frequency to use should it be asked to establish
two-way contact during the time frame before the next sounding.)
Continues next bulletin.
Cary Mangum, W6WWW E-mail: cary.mangum{at}macnexus.org
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