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Impact Based Warnings Go Nationwide This Spring!

NWS forecast offices who haven't previously used impact-based warnings will start using this product format sometime in March 2016.

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Impact Based Warnings: References

 

Introduction

Below is a list of WDTD training and peer-reviwed journal articles that are particularly relevant to NWS Impact Based Warning operations. Emphasis is placed on operational tornado intensity estimation, hail size, and wind speed estimates. A section on how to best communicate those threats is also provided.

References

Operational Estimates of Tornado Intensity

TDS Height

Operational Hail Size Estimates

Operational Wind Speed Estimates

Threat Communication