[Weather] Announcing the 2021 Virtual Hurricane Readiness and HURREVAC Training for Emergency Managers

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Hello all,

Here is the latest information on upcoming *virtual Hurricane Readiness and
HURREVAC Training.  *Given the adjustments due to COVID for the Spring
outreach schedule, the National Hurricane Program
<https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/risk-management/hurricanes> (NHP)
will be providing a new option to engage emergency managers in preparation
for hurricane season.  The NHP program partners have adapted portions of
their training for a virtual webinar series.  This training is in lieu of
the 3 one-week FEMA courses that are offered annually at the National
Hurricane Center. This training is based on material that is used for the
one-day FEMA L-311 course that is typically offered at the National
Hurricane Conference and Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference. The
training will occur over 3 days with sessions lasting 3 h each day. The
final day will include some Hurrevac training. The training will be led by
folks from National Hurricane Center, the FEMA Hurricane Liaison Team, FEMA
Regional Hurricane Program Managers, and the USACE.

*See the description below and the attached flyer for more information on
the virtual Hurricane Readiness and HURREVAC Training.  *

*Description of Webinar Training:*
This training webinar is an introduction to the National Hurricane Center’s
forecast products and the National Hurricane Program’s tools for how to
incorporate them into planning and response. Topics include hurricane
hazards, hurricane forecast products, hurricane evacuation planning, and
the hurricane decision process.  The NHP provides data, resources and
technical assistance for hurricane evacuation planning and response for
state, local, tribal, territorial and federal government partners.
Participants will be introduced to the NHP’s decision support tool, HURREVAC
<https://hurrevac.com/>.  HURREVAC is a free web-based platform available
to government emergency managers that provides evacuation timing guidance.
HURREVAC combines real-time National Hurricane Center forecast products and
storm surge modeling with evacuation clearance times from Hurricane
Evacuation Studies. This training webinar is ideal for State and local
emergency managers that support evacuation decision making during a
hurricane threat.

*Webinar Format:*
The training webinar will be a total of 9 hours of instruction; instruction
will be provided for three hours on three consecutive days.  There will be
two offerings of this training webinar series:

   - March 30-April 1,  9am-12pm EDT
   - May 4-6,  1-4pm EDT

*How to Register:*

   - To *register* for Hurricane Readiness and HURREVAC Training on *March
   30 – April 1, 2021, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT*:
      - https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/440607707879677707


   - To *register* for Hurricane Readiness and HURREVAC Training on *May
   4-6, 2021 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT*:
      - https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6093901773315027727


   - Attendees should plan to attend all three days of webinar series.
   - The two offerings of the webinar series, one in March and one in May,
   will be the same format and content.
   - After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
   information about joining the webinar.


If there are any questions about the training, please contact the FEMA
Regional Hurricane Program Manager or direct questions to NHP at fema.dhs.gov.

Christina Finch
National Hurricane Program Manager | Planning and Exercise Division |
Response Directorate
Mobile: (202) 812-6962
christina.finch at fema.dhs.gov


We hope you are able to leverage this training opportunity to support your
upcoming hurricane preparedness efforts.

Thank you,
Glenn Field
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
NWS - Boston/Norton, MA
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