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Enhancing Weather Data Distribution for Safety and Education

Working together, The IEM-KCCI-NWS Partnership has installed 44 SchoolNet weather stations to increase data distribution, generating over 500,000 monthly internet page views. The project includes real-time data processing, monitoring for severe weather, and automated meta-data tracking systems. By combining real-time rainfall totals with NEXRAD imagery and GIS technology, the partnership improves weather services, warnings, flood predictions, and education, benefitting various sectors. The communication and operational benefits of sharing data include enhancing severe weather detection, verification, and preparedness efforts. The project also supports research and climatology studies with sophisticated data analysis tools. Collaborators include NWS officials and weather experts across multiple regions.

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Enhancing Weather Data Distribution for Safety and Education

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  1. The IEM-KCCI-NWS Partnership: Working Together to Save Lives and Increase Weather Data Distribution

  2. PROJECT REVIEW • KCCI-TV INSTALLED 44 SCHOOLNET WEATHER STATIONS BEGINNING DECEMBER OF 2000 TO PRESENT • EACH STATION REPORTS CONTINOUSLY VIA THE INTERNET. • GENERATING MORE THAN 500,000 INTERNET PAGE VIEWS EACH MONTH • INCREASED KCCI-TV IDENTITY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES. • INCREASED RATINGS DOMINANCE

  3. ON-AIR AWARDS

  4. STUDENT INVOLVEMENT

  5. EXPLAINING THE SENSORS

  6. MEDIA COVERAGE

  7. MEDIA COVERAGE

  8. BARON DISPLAY

  9. TV DISPLAY

  10. TV DISPLAY

  11. REALTIME RAINFALL AND RADAR HYDRO

  12. Now What? • Too Much Data too watch at once! • Have to relay information to NWS via radio. • Daily notification of schools for outages. • Then along came IEM!

  13. Iowa Environmental Mesonet • Gather, collect, compare, disseminate and archive Iowa data. • Currently gathering data from 9 networks, including KCCI’s • Archive holds over 250 million observations made in the state.

  14. Value added data • Real Time data processing • Monitor for 50+ MPH gusts and measurable rainfall • Implement a 1 minute wind averaging scheme • Calculate rainfall accumulations

  15. IEM Data Services • Archive EVERY observation • Convert ASCII data feed into METAR and other formats • Build unique web applications • Quality Control

  16. IEM Tracker • Automated meta-data tracking system for IEM networks • Email alerts when sites go offline • Has stored over 4,000 pieces of IEM meta-data.

  17. Where’s it raining? • Combine real-time 15 minute rainfall totals with current NEXRAD imagery • GIS based!!!

  18. Improved NWS Data, Service and Education IEM NWS KCCI - TV

  19. Benefits of Sharing • Weather Warnings • Weather Forecasts • Climate database • Hydrological Forecasts • Education & Research

  20. Operational Data & Applications • Precipitation • 44 new real time rainfall obs • That’s a 70% increase for DMX! • IEM rainfall tables • Flash Flood Prediction • GIS Precipitation briefing tool

  21. Hourly SHEF Messages

  22. Operational Data & Applications • Precipitation • Wind • 44 new data points • Supplements existing network • Near Storm Environment • Enhanced boundary detection • Observation & Model comparisons

  23. Operational Data & Applications • Precipitation • Wind • Temperature & Dew Point • 44 new data points • Supplements existing network • Near Storm Environment • Enhanced boundary detection • Observation & Model comparisons

  24. Communication • IEM - AWIPS Alerts • Observations - LDAD - D2D • Media Radio - secondary source

  25. AWIPS Alerts within seconds

  26. Severe Weather Detection and Verification • Verify severe winds • Detection of small scale events (i.e. heat bursts) • Mesoscale analysis

  27. Observations of Wind Gusts > 58 mph

  28. Observations of Wind Gusts of 50-57 mph

  29. Education & Preparedness • KCCI TV support of severe weather awareness programs • Promoted NOAA Weather Radio expansion • Donated tower space - addition of 4 counties to EAS

  30. IEM Research and Climatology • GIS Weather hazard climatology • GIS Basin rainfall climatology • Assess use of sub-hourly observations

  31. Credit is due to: Shane Searcy Information Technology Officer - NWS Des Moines Peter Corrigan Senior Hydrologist - NWS Des Moines Larry Ellis HAS - North Central River Forecast Center - NWS Julie Meyer Hydrologist - Missouri Basin River Forecast Center - NWS Central Iowa Chapter of NWA - funding support of Media radio network

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