•Daily Operations BriefingSunday, December 22, 2013

8:30 a.m. EST

Severe Weather – Southern Plains to Great LakesSituation:• Severe thunderstorms moved across the Southern Plains to the Great Lakes bringing heavy rain, strong winds and possible

tornadoes

Impacts• As of 8:45 a.m. EST, there were approximately 319,000 customers without power across FEMA Regions (IV– VII).

o Most significant outages in Region V 250k; with outages in MI (223k) & Region VI 51K; with outages in OK (29k)• 2 confirmed deaths and several injuries in 11 counties in Mississippi; 1 unconfirmed in Missouri• Damage includes downed trees and power lines resulting in power outages across the affected Regions• Possible tornado caused damage to 4 homes in Chicot County, AR (pop. 11,433)• Media sources reports strong winds and heavy rain damaged homes in northern Louisiana

State Response: • State EOCs in AR, OK and NM are partially activated• All other EOCs remain at Normal Operations; no shortfalls or unmet needs

FEMA Response: • No RRCCs (IV-VII) are activated for this event; all Regional Watch Centers remain at Watch/Steady State with the

exception of Region VII Watch Center at Enhanced Watch• NRCC is not activated; the NWC remains at Watch/Steady State

Winter Storm – Mid-Atlantic to New EnglandSituation:• A wintry mix of heavy rain, freezing rain and heavy snow is moving across the Eastern U.S.• Widespread rainfall of 3 to 6 inches reported, with higher amounts of up to 9 inches, locally• Threat for significant freezing rain is expected to depart the region by late Monday morning

Impacts: • No significant impacts reported; power restoration continues as conditions permit• As of 8:15 a.m. EST, there were approximately 154,000 customers without power across FEMA

Regions I-III; most significant outages in Region I 33k (VT 21k), Region II 93k (NY 93k) & Region III 28k (WV 18k)

State Response: • NY, ME, and VT State EOCs are partially activated; all other State EOCs remain at Normal Operations

• The Governor of NY declared States of Emergency for 7 northern counties on Dec 21• No shortfalls or unmet needs; no requests for FEMA assistance

FEMA Response: • Region I RRCC (Virtual) – Enhanced Monitoring; RRCCs (II-III) are not activated for this event• All Regional Watch Centers remain at Watch/Steady State• Region I LNO deployed to VT State EOC on Dec 21• NRCC is not activated; the NWC remains at Watch/Steady State

Joint Preliminary Damage AssessmentsRegion State /

Location Event IA/PA Number of Counties Start – EndRequested Complete

VI OK Winter WeatherDec 5, 2013 PA 6 (+2) 6 (+6) 12/19-12/20

Open Field Offices as of December 22, 2013

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/noaa/noaad1.pdf

National Weather Forecast

Active Watches/Warnings

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/largemap.php

Freezing Rain Probabilities (72-hour)

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pwpf/wwd_accum_probs.php?ftype=probabilities&fpd=72&ptype=icez

Precipitation Forecast – 3 Day

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/day1-3.shtml

Excessive Rainfall – Days 1-2

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/excess_rain.shtml

River Forecast – 7 Day

Convective Outlooks Days 1 – 3 Day 1 Day 2

Day 3

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fire_wx/fwdy1.html

Critical Fire Weather Areas Days 1 – 8 Day 1 Day 2

Day 3-8

NOAA Scales Activity(Range: 1/minor to 5/extreme)

Past24 Hours Current Next

24 HoursSpace Weather Activity: Minor None None• Geomagnetic Storms None None None• Solar Radiation Storms None None None• Radio Blackouts R1 None None

Space Weather

Sunspot Activity

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/drap/global.html http://spaceweather.com/

HF Communication Impact

FEMA Readiness – Deployable Teams/Assets Deployable Teams/Assets

Resource Status Total Available Partially Available

Not Available

Deployed/Activated Comments Rating Criterion

FCO 40 13 33% N/A 2 25• Red due to insufficient Type 1 FCO OFDC Readiness:

FCO Green Yellow RedType 1 3+ 2 1Type 2 4+ 3 2Type 3 4 3 2

FDRC 3 2 1FDRC 9 2 22% 0 0 7

US&R 28 26 92% 2 0 0

• NV-TF1 (Yellow/Conditional)• NM-TF1 (Yellow/Conditional)

• Green = Available/FMC• Yellow = Available/PMC• Red = Out-of-Service• Blue = Assigned/Deployed

National IMAT 3 3 100% 0 0 0

• Green: 3 avail • Yellow: 1 avail• Red: 0 avail

Individual N-IMAT red if 50% of Section Chiefs and/or Team Leader is unavailable

for deployment.

Regional IMAT 13 6 46% 0 1 6

• Deployed team locations: PA, NC, NM, SD, CO and CA

• Region VII (KS) reconstituting

• Green: > 6 avail• Yellow: 4 -6 teams available• Red: > 8 teams

deployed/unavailable R-IMAT also red if TL Ops/Log Chief is

unavailable and has no qualified replacement.

MCOV 55 51 90% 0 2 2• 2 in CO • Green = Available/FMC

• Yellow = Available/PMC• Red = Out-of-Service• Blue = Assigned/Deployed

FEMA Readiness – National/Regional TeamsNational/Regional Teams

Resource Status Total Available Partially Available

Not Available

Deployed/Activated Comments Rating Criterion

NWC 5 5 100% 0 0 Steady State• Green = FMC• Yellow = PMC• Red = NMC

NRCC 0 360 92% 0 0 Not Activated • NRCC# represents FEMA personnel on Roster

HLT 1 1 100% 0 0 Not Activated

DEST Not Activated

RRCCs 10 10 100% 0 0 Not Activated • Region I at virtual RRCC –Enhanced Monitoring

RWCs/MOCs 10 10 100% 0 0 24/7 • Region VII RWC at Enhanced Watch