[W3GV] Important new Hazards Simplification Project surveys on winter weather and flood

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EMA Partners, 
The National Weather Service is contemplating significant changes to some 
of  our Winter Weather and Flood Watches, Warnings and Advisories.  A link to 
a  few short surveys are below.  We would appreciate if you could quick 
take a  small amount of time and complete them and help us with these  changes. 
Thanks 
Gary  
Late yesterday a national Public Information Statement (PNS) was released 
by  the Hazards Simplification project team requesting feedback on a proposed 
 changes to our Watch, Warning and Advisory messages for winter weather and 
 flooding. The surveys linked from the PNS  (one for winter and one for  
flooding) are the most important Haz Simp surveys to date, as the results will 
 drive the decision as to what changes we should consider making as part of 
a  possible operational demonstration later this year.  

The surveys will be open until May 31, 2017.  Each  will take 10-15 minutes 
to complete.

There are two elements to the  current proposal, as displayed in these 
surveys. The first is to "consolidate"  (reduce the number of) products within 
the Watch, Warning and Advisory (WWA)  suite for winter and flooding pr
oducts.  The second is to reformat our  winter weather and flood WWA messages to 
simplify the body text and achieve  national formatting consistency. 

These proposals are based on feedback  from the previous surveys you have 
helped us promote and social science research  associated with the project.

We are asking that you please promote these  surveys with a "top news" 
headline on your office web site. Please also directly  promote these surveys 
with your partner networks. 

Winter Product Survey  - _https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TPC8WK8 _ 
(https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TPC8WK8) 
Flood Product  Survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TPDCQVJ

PNS - http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/pns17hazsimp.htm

Please direct any  questions/concerns directly to the Haz Simp team via 
e-mail at hazsimp at noaa.gov.   
Thank-you, 
Chris  
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