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

[Matthew Steger]

I did the survey, Dave, and added a comment at the end that it is rather
silly to name winter storms.

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

 
 
 
 
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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