[Weather] Decision Support Services Request Form

[Glenn Field - NOAA Federal]

Dear Emergency Managers,

We wanted to take this opportunity, especially now that spring and summer
are approaching, to remind everyone that the National Weather Service in
Norton, MA is able to provide support to emergency managers and town
officials for large events for the overall purpose of public safety and
safety of first responders.  We call this "DSS," or Decision Support
Services.  Typically, these events would have several thousand people or
more in attendance.  Our support could be in the form of emails/forecast
matrices ahead of the event, phone calls during an event if a threshold is
reached, or actual onsite presence in a multi-agency coordination center
(for huge events such as the July 4th Boston Pops on the Esplanade or the
Boston Marathon, etc.).

Below is a link to the form that you would need to complete in order to
initiate a request -- please give several weeks of heads-up notice to us.
In that form, you will be asked to provide us with what your critical
weather criteria/thresholds may be.  For example, for some events you may
only be interested in whether lightning is forecast/approaching.  For other
events it could be 1" or more of rain or 30+ mph wind gusts that you are
concerned with.  We can take that information and send you a color-coded
matrix ahead of time that highlights your main weather parameters of
concern, for example.

Some of you have already used this form, but since we typically hear from
the same EMs, we wanted to send it out again via this email list.

https://www.weather.gov/box/em_form

Our DSS Program Leader is Frank Nocera (frank.nocera at noaa.gov).  If you
have any questions, please contact either Frank or me.  Thanks.

Sincerely,
Glenn Field
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
NWS - Norton, MA
(508) 622-3250 ext. 223 (or press 2 from menu)
Direct line:  508-622-3323
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