AWIPS D2D User Manual (Release OB9.0): Chapter 5 - WarnGen

• Introduction to WarnGen
• Getting Started in WarnGen
• The WarnGen Dialog Box
• Test/Practice Mode
• WarnGen Practice Modules

Distance Learning Operations Course (DLOC): Topic 1

• Introduction to the WarnGen Graphical User Interface
• Warning Process with WarnGen

Distance Learning Operations Course (DLOC):

• Topic 1: Radar and Warning Applications Using AWIPS (Student Guide and WES Cases)

Advanced Warning Operations Course (AWOC) Core Track

• IC2: Situational Awareness and Decision Making in a Warning Environment
  • Lesson 1 - The Warning Process and the Role of Intuition
• IC3: Expertise and Effective Office Warning Strategies
  • Lesson 2 - Cognitive Task Analysis of Expert Warning Forecasters
• IC4: Conveying Warnings and Public Response
  • Lesson 1 - Mitigating Potential Errors in Spotter Reports
  • Lesson 2 - The Warning Response Process
  • Lesson 3 - Effective Warnings

Advanced Warning Operations Course (AWOC) Severe Track

• IC5: Quasi-Linear Convective Systems
  • QLCS Storm-Scale Interrogation and Warning Considerations
  • Warning Decision Making Issues with Derecho-Producing QLCS Events

Tornado and Severe Thunderstorm Warning Best Practices Course:

• Best Practices Rationale
• Enhanced Wording Usage in Tornado Warnings & Severe Weather Statements
• Limiting Number of Counties in Warnings
• Minimizing Unnecessary Overlap Between Warning Polygons
• How to Deal with Non-Linear Motion

Flash Flood Warning Best Practices Course:

• FFMP and Issuing Basin-Based Flash Flood Warnings
• How and When to Use "Flash Flood Emergency"

Other WDTB Courses:

• Storm-Based Warnings
• Advanced Storm-Based Warnings
• Pathcasts in Severe Local Storm Warnings
• Warning Decision Making Implications from Significant Events

COMET Module on Anticipating Hazardous Weather and Community Risk

NWS Dissemination Services

Call to action markers with OB9.0 by FDTB

Effective Use of Various Communication Methods During a Severe Convective Outbreak by Albert E. Pietrycha and Mark A. Fox (WFO Amarillo)

Communicating the Threat in Warnings and Statements: Call-To-Action Statements by Richard Smith

Situation Specific Call-To-Action Statements by Timothy W. Troutman and Richard Smith

NWS Directive 10-511: WFO Severe Weather Products Specification

NWS Directive 10-517: Multi-Purpose Weather Products Specification

NWS Directive 10-17: Dissemination

NWS Directive 10-922: WFO Hydrologic Products Specification

NWS Directive 10-923: WFO Hydrologic Product Examples

Alaska Region (AR) Directives:

• Alaska Weather Forecast Office Hydrologic Products - Applicable to NWS Directive 10-922

Central Region (CR) Directives:

• One Inch Hail Criterion for Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Central Region - Applicable to NWS Directive 10-511 (Note that the 1" hail criterion is a national hail criterion as of January 5, 2010. Click here for more details)
• Weather Forecast Office Hydrologic Products - Applicable to NWS Directive 10-922

Eastern Region (ER) Directives:

• Hazardous Weather Outlook, Special Weather Statement, and Short Term Forecast - Applicable to NWS Directive 10-517

Pacific Region (PR) Directives:

• Pacific Region Weather Forecast Office Hydrologic Products - Applicable to NWS Directive 10-922

Southern Region (SR) Directives:

• Special Weather Statements - Applicable to NWS Directive 10-517

Western Region (WR) Directives:

• WFO Public Hydrologic Products - Applicable to NWS Directive 10-922

Emerging Technologies in the Field to Improve Information in Support of Operations and Research by Pietrycha et al. 2009

Using GOES Satellite Products to Enhance National Weather Service Warning Operations by Samuel L. Lashley (WFO Syracuse, IN)

Partnership for Public Warning Handbook

The System for Convection Analysis and Nowcasting

Warning Decision Making: The Relative Roles of Conceptual Modes, Technology, Strategy, and Forecaster Expertise on 3 May 1999

Warning Response and Risk Behavior in the Oak Grove-Brimingham, Alabama Tornado of 08 April 1998

Radar Detection and Warning Strategies Using Multiple Workspaces: AWIPS setup example by Josh Korotky (WFO - Pittsburg)

Public Warning Response Following Tornadoes in New Orleans, LA, and Springfield, MO: A Sociological Analysis by Donner et al. 2007

Weather and Society * Integrated Studies (WAS*IS)

Social Science Woven into Meteorology (SSWIM)