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•Daily Operations Briefing Sunday, December 8, 2013

8:30 a.m. EST

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Significant Activity: Dec 7 – 8

Significant Events: Winter storm – Southern Plains to Lower Ohio Valley

Significant Weather:

• Freezing rain – Portions of Ohio/Tennessee Valleys, Mid-Atlantic & southern New England

• Snowfall – Middle Missouri Valley into the Great Lakes

• Heavy rain – Portions of the Gulf Coast into Tennessee Valley

• Critical Fire Weather Areas/Red Flag Warnings: None

• Space Weather: Moderate/G2 geomagnetic storms occurred; Minor/G1 geomagnetic storms expected

Tropical Activity: No activity threatening U.S. or its territories

Earthquake Activity: None

Declaration Activity: None

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Winter Storm – Plains to OH Valley December 5-7, 2013

• Winter storm brought snow & freezing rain to the Southern Plains through the Tennessee Valley

• Over 300k customers lost power due to downed trees and power lines—most of those were in R4 and R6

• Majority of outages restored; some remain within Region VI (No long term outages expected)

o FEMA Region VI: 50,410 outages

Texas: 43,753 (down from peak of 277k)

Arkansas: 4,923 (down from peak of 28k)

o Sporadic outages reported elsewhere

• Significant—but temporary—travel disruptions in many affected areas

• No requests for FEMA assistance; no unmet needs

Arkansas Texas

Source: DOE EAGLE-I, as of 6:15 a.m. EST, December 8, 2013

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Winter Storm – Response FEMA Headquarters

• NRCC is not activated; NWC returned to Normal Ops (24/7) on December 7

FEMA Region IV

• RRCC returned to Normal Ops & RWC transitioned to Enhanced Watch

• IMAT-1 released from KY EOC

• State EOCs in TN & KY remain partially activated; Statewide states of emergency

declared in TN & KY on Dec 5

FEMA Region VI

• RRCC activated to Level II, dayshift only (with ESF 1, 3, 6, & DCE)

• IMATs deployed to OK JFO and AR JFO; will support SEOCs, as needed

• 2-person team deployed w/MERs to Davis Field, OK to support generator staging

• FEMA LNO & FCO deployed to TX SEOC

• FSAs established at Davis Airfield Muskogee, OK & Camp Robinson, North Little

Rock, AR

• State EOCs in TX, AR and OK are partially activated; all other states at Normal Ops

• Statewide states of emergency declared for TX, AR and OK

FEMA Region VII

• RRCC activated to Level III, dayshift only (with ESF 6, 8 & 15)

• MO EOC is partially activated (Level II)

National Activation Status Map

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

National Weather Forecast

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Snow Probabilities (72-hour)

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pwpf/wwd_accum_probs.ph

p?ftype=probabilities&fpd=72&ptype=snow

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Freezing Rain Probabilities (72-hour)

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pwpf/wwd_accum_pro

bs.php?ftype=probabilities&fpd=72&ptype=icez

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Active Watches/Warnings

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

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

Precipitation Forecast – 3 Day

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

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http://water.weather.gov/ahps/forecasts.php?current_color=flood&current_type=all&fcst_t

ype=fcst&conus_map=d_map

River Forecast – 7 Day

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Convective Outlooks Days 1 – 3

Day 1 Day 2

Day 3

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Critical Fire Weather Areas Days 1 – 8

Day 1 Day 2

Day 3-8

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

Past

24 Hours Current

Next

24 Hours

Space Weather Activity: Moderate None Minor

• Geomagnetic Storms G2 None G1

• Solar Radiation Storms None None None

• Radio Blackouts None None None

Space Weather

Sunspot Activity

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/drapglobal.html http://spaceweather.com/

HF Communication Impact

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Declaration Requests in Process Requests

APPROVED (since last report)

Requests DENIED

(since last report)

3 Date Requested 0 0

Rosebud Sioux Tribe – DR (Appeal) Severe Storms, Straight-line

Winds, and Flooding October 29, 2013

CA – DR (Appeal) Rim Fire December 2, 2013

IN – DR Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, and Tornadoes December 3, 2013

Disaster Requests & Declarations

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Joint Preliminary Damage Assessments

Region State /

Location Event IA/PA

Number of Counties Start – End

Requested Complete

V IL Severe Storms and Tornadoes

November 17-18, 2013 PA 15 0 12/2-TBD

VI TX Severe Storms and Flooding

Oct 30 – Nov 16, 2013 PA 4 2 12/3-12/5

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Open Field Offices as of December 8, 2013 North Dakota 4154-DR*

South Dakota 4155-DR

JFO: Ellsworth AFB, SD

*Closing 12/20/2013

FCO: Gary R. Stanley

Vermont 4140-DR*

JFO: Williston, VT

*Closing 12/20/2013

FCO: Mark H. Landry

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Total Deployed Detailed Not

Available Available Cadre Status

40 29 1 2 8

OFDC Cadre Member Status

Total Available Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Type 4

8* 1 5 2 0

As of: 12/4/2013

* All Type 1 FCOs are available unless deployed to a Level 1 event

Total Deployed Assigned Available Status

9 5 4 4

Federal Coordinating Officer

Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator

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MCOV Fleet / Deployment Status

Fully Mission Capable 53 Partially Mission Capable 0 Non-Mission Capable 2 Total Not Deployed 52

MCOV FLEET STATUS MCOV DISASTER SUPPORT DEPLOYMENTS

Location Units

Assigned Available

FMC Deployed

Committed PMC Unavailable DR-State OPCON

En

Route Unit Prep

Open

Request Notes:

MERS Maynard 3 3 0 0 0 DR-4145-CO 2 0 0

MERS Frederick 8 8 0 0 0 EM-OK 1 0 0

MERS Thomasville 14 13 1 0 0 0 0 0

DC Ft Worth 20 16 2 0 2 0 0 0

MERS Denver 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0

MERS Bothell 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0

Sacramento 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0

TOTAL 55 50 3 0 2 TOTAL 3 0 0 0

Units in route for turn-in included in above totals.

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FEMA Corps Team Locations, as of Dec 9

Starting Monday, info will be provided

for Monday Briefings from now on

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IMAT Status National Teams

Team Status Team Status Team Status

Blue/White/

Red East CO West

Regional Teams Team Status Team Status Team Status

Region I Region V IL Region VIII SD

Region II Region VI-1 OK Region IX-1

Region III PA Region VI-2 NM Region IX-2 CO

Region IV-1 KY Region VII KS Region X

Region IV-2 NC

= Assigned/Deployed

= Not Mission Capable

= Available/Mission Capable

= Available/Partially Mission Capable

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Urban Search & Rescue INCIDENT SUPPORT TEAMS (Red-White-Blue) – Monthly On Call Rotation

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

WEST CENTRAL EAST

Team Status Team Status Team Status

CA-TF1 Available AZ-TF1 Available FL-TF1 Available

CA-TF2 Available CO-TF1 Available FL-TF2 Available

CA-TF3 Available IN-TF1 Available MA-TF1 Available

CA-TF4 Available MO-TF1 Available MD-TF1 Available

CA-TF5 Available NE-TF1 Available NY-TF1 Available

CA-TF6 Available NM-TF1 Conditional PA-TF1 Available

CA-TF7 Available NV-TF1 Conditional VA-TF1 Available

CA-TF8 Available TN-TF1 Available VA-TF2 Available

WA-TF1 Available TX-TF1 Available OH-TF1 Available

UT-TF1 Available

= Assigned/Deployed = Out-of-Service

= Available/Mission Capable = Available/Partially Mission Capable

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RRCC / Regional Watch Center Status

= Not Mission Capable = Available/Partially Mission Capable = Available/Mission Capable

Region RRCC Regional Watch Center

I Not Activated Maynard MOC (24/7)

II Not Activated 24/7

III Level III

(as of 10:00 a.m. EST, Dec 8) 24/7

IV Not Activated Enhanced

V Not Activated 24/7

VI Level II Denton MOC (24/7)

VII Level III 24/7

VIII Not Activated Denver MOC (24/7)

IX Not Activated 24/7

X Not Activated Bothell MOC (24/7)

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National Team Status

Team/Status Current Location Remarks

National Watch Center Washington, DC Watch/Steady State

NRCC Washington, DC Not Activated

HLT Miami, FL Not Activated

DEST Washington, DC Not Activated

Mission Capable Partially Mission Capable Not Mission Capable

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