Emwin : High-Tech Readiness for Stormy Weather

By Department of Commerce

Book Id: WPLBN0000701559
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 52.68 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2000

Title:	Emwin : High-Tech Readiness for Stormy Weather
Author:	Department of Commerce
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Department of Commerce and Labor Document, Commerce.
Collections:	Department of Commerce Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt
Excerpt: The National Weather Service (NWS) and America?s emergency managers continue to strengthen their partnership to help protect lives and property faced by the threat of severe weather. One shining example of this alliance is The Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN), a system that transmits live weather information to computers across the U.S., the Caribbean and over most of the Pacific Ocean. EMWIN Is a Win-Win More than ever, the EMWIN system gives emergency managers the capability to respond faster to severe weather and other natural threats. That means greater lead times to warn, and possibly evacuate, communities of dangerous tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, blizzards, and other severe weather events. Faster response time improves the likelihood of sparing lives and property, which tops the list of priorities at the NWS, an agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.