IDSS Lessons Learned During Historic 2017 California Fires: A NWS Weather Forecast Office Perspective (246)

Michelle Mead, NWS Sacramento Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Sacramento, CA

Hannah Chandler, NWS Sacramento Meteorologist

 

Abstract:

IDSS Lessons Learned During Historic 2017 California Fires: A NWS Weather Forecast Office Perspective

Michelle Mead, NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Sacramento, CA

Hannah Chandler, NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Sacramento, CA

Weather Forecast Office Sacramento serves as the state liason office (SLO) for Northern California. The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) is a deep core partner that NWS serves. Several years of drought and flood have strengthened our partnership such that when the fires erupted in October and then again in December NWS Sacramento was one of their first calls, when the state operations center was spun up. This presentation will highlight lesson learned during these activations ranging from staffing to communicating a consistent message from multiple NWS forecast offices.