[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] Fwd: [ARES-VA] FW: Hurricane Hilary

Sun Aug 20 19:31:40 EDT 2023

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From: main at ARES-VA.groups.io <main at ARES-VA.groups.io> on behalf of Jack Smith KE4LWT <KE4LWT at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2023 10:34:47 AM
To: main at ARES-VA.groups.io <main at ARES-VA.groups.io>
Cc: martinkrupinski at comcast.net <martinkrupinski at comcast.net>
Subject: [ARES-VA] FW: Hurricane Hilary

Good morning,

While Hurricane Hilary is far away from us, many of us have friends or family who live in the SoCal area. Please pass this along to your teams and ask them to disseminate widely. 

73,

Jack R. Smith, VaPEM

KE4LWT

Virginia Section Manager

Representing ARRL members in Virginia

ARRL – the national association for Amateur Radio

Facebook Page: ARRLofVA

Website:  <http://www.arrlva.com/> http://www.arrlva.com

662-523-0000

 <mailto:jsmith at arrl.org> jsmith at arrl.org

From: Johnston, Josh, KE5MHV (EMD) <JJohnston at arrl.org> 
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2023 7:38 AM
To: ARRL Section Emerg Coordinators <sec at arrl.org>; ARRL Section Managers <smlist at arrl.org>; EMD <EmergencyManagementDepartment at arrl.org>; Walters, Michael, W8ZY <mwalters at arrl.org>
Cc: Bobby Graves - KB5HAV <kb5hav at hwn.org>; Julio Ripoll Architect WD4R <wd4r at comcast.net>
Subject: Hurricane Hilary

Good Morning everyone,

We are tracking Hurricane Hilary this morning along with you all in the Southwest US.  

For all:  Please pass along to all your active hams this morning the following from the National Hurricane Center and the Hurricane Watch Net.  The VOIP Hurricane net will be active this morning.  https://voipwx.net/  also supporting the National Hurricane Center.  This could be very important and the information received and passed to the NHC helps them in their forecasting as well as painting a real picture of the real time activity of the storm. 

WX4NHC Amateur Radio Station at the National Hurricane Center – Announcement

WX4NHC will be activated this Sunday at 8am EDT for Hurricane Hilary’s possible landfall along the Mexican Baja peninsula and southern California.

WX4NHC will be On-The-Air on the Hurricane Watch Net frequency 14.325 MHz and 7.268 MHz depending on propagation. 

We will also be on VoIP Hurricane Net 

(IRLP node 9219 / EchoLink WX-TALK Conference node 7203).  <http://www.voipwx.net/> http://www.voipwx.net/

We will also be monitoring WinLink reports.
 <mailto:wx4nhc at winlink.org> wx4nhc at winlink.org (subject line must contain //WL2K.)

WX4NHC On-line Hurricane report Form

Hurricane On-line Report Form (fiu.edu) <https://w4ehw.fiu.edu/WX-form1.php> 

We also received the following from Bobby Graves with the hurricane watch net in support of activity in southern California. 

The information contained in this email is going to numerous amateur radio nets, government and non-government agencies, as well as various amateur radio news outlets.

Hello Everyone,

The Hurricane Watch Net will activate Sunday at 9:00 AM EDT (1300 UTC) on both 14.325.00 MHz and 7.268.00 MHz for Hurricane Hilary. As of Advisory #13 issued at 1500 UTC, Hilary is expected to make landfall near Bahía Tortugas, Cedros Island, and El Rosario. We will remain active until our services are no longer required. This system does have a good chance of crossing into California as a Tropical Storm. If so, it will be the first Tropical Storm to hit California since 1939.

During any Net activation, we have operators who speak both English and Spanish and we look for reporting stations who can provide us with any measured or estimated weather information that we can relay directly to the forecasters at National Hurricane Center in Miami. Such weather information we look for is maximum sustained winds, winds gusts, wind direction, barometric pressure, rainfall amount – how much over x-amount of time, storm surge, and damage. Should you have any outgoing Health and Welfare Traffic before, during, or after this event, we are happy to assist as we work closely with the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN).

As always, we are available to provide backup communications to official agencies such as Emergency Operations Centers, Red Cross officials, and Storm Shelters in the affected area. We also collect and forward significant damage assessment data to government and non-government officials requesting such.

We greatly appreciate the daily users and various nets who use 14.325.00 MHz and 7.268.00 MHz for allowing us a clear frequency. It certainly makes our job easier and I know those in the affected area appreciate it as well.

73 & God Bless,
Bobby

Everyone stay safe and thanks for all you do.

Josh Johnston, KE5MHV
Director of Emergency Management
ARRL  The National Association for Amateur Radio®
225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111-1400 USA
Tel: (860) 594-0333 FAX: (860) 594-0303
jjohnston at arrl.org <mailto:jjohnston at arrl.org> 
www.arrl.org <http://www.arrl.org> 

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