Jeffn8wb
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
The Hurricane Watch Net will activate today at 3:00 p.m. EDT - 1900 UTC on 14.325 MHz for Hurricane Emily, which is forecast to make landfall approximately half way between La Pesca, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas as a category 3 Hurricane sometime late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
Given the fact that there is a large population of Spanish speaking people in the affected area, we will have our Bilingual Support Team on hand to assist in providing essential advisory information to the affected area and for collecting any reported local observed or measured data for conveyance to the forecasters at the National Hurricane Center.
As usual, during any net activation, we encourage all mariners and residents in and around affect area to please come to net frequency (14.325 MHz) for all the latest information and for the purpose of providing reports of conditions in your area. Please help to spread the word to people in the affected area while also requesting any available reporting stations in the area to please come to net frequency (14.325 MHz) with their observed and/or measured weather data.
Any update to this plan will be announced as necessary.
We will be requesting measured/observed ground truth data from the affected area. Under direction of the National Hurricane Center, those may be solicited from specific locations and/or with specific criterion attached (such as people experiencing sustained winds in excess of 35 knots, or those with rapidly degrading conditions, etc.). Temperature and dew point information is not needed. We remind those reporting stations to "please" do not report to us the weather information reported by your local media. We are interested ONLY in your personal observations, preferably measured by calibrated instrumentation.
Note: The above criteria may be changed without notice.
Throughout this event, we remind everyone that we are also available to provide backup communications facilities to official agencies such as Emergency Operations Centers and Red Cross officials in the affected area. We will also be interested to collect and report significant damage assessment data back to FEMA officials stationed in the National Hurricane Center.
Please honor our request that you should not check in to the net unless specifically requested to do so. We will attempt to handle all communications within the capabilities of our own members, and only when required assistance is needed will we ask for your help.
While our mission is specifically to provide storm related information into and out of the storm, please understand we are not involved in Health and Welfare traffic. That traffic will be handled by the SATERN net on 14.265.00 MHz, whenever activated, as well as on their website of www.satern.org. On the SATERN homepage, you will find a link for Health and Welfare Information. Fill out that form and they will get back with you as soon as possible. We will likely be reporting other emergency frequencies to be set up by local emergency management nets in the affected area. Please monitor 14.325.00 MHz for that information as it is made available.
As a final reminder, please monitor this web site for storm related advisory updates, graphics displays, and other data made available from the National Hurricane Center.
Thanks in advance for your support and cooperation during this extremely dangerous storm.
The Hurricane Watch Net will activate today at 3:00 p.m. EDT - 1900 UTC on 14.325 MHz for Hurricane Emily, which is forecast to make landfall approximately half way between La Pesca, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas as a category 3 Hurricane sometime late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
Given the fact that there is a large population of Spanish speaking people in the affected area, we will have our Bilingual Support Team on hand to assist in providing essential advisory information to the affected area and for collecting any reported local observed or measured data for conveyance to the forecasters at the National Hurricane Center.
As usual, during any net activation, we encourage all mariners and residents in and around affect area to please come to net frequency (14.325 MHz) for all the latest information and for the purpose of providing reports of conditions in your area. Please help to spread the word to people in the affected area while also requesting any available reporting stations in the area to please come to net frequency (14.325 MHz) with their observed and/or measured weather data.
Any update to this plan will be announced as necessary.
We will be requesting measured/observed ground truth data from the affected area. Under direction of the National Hurricane Center, those may be solicited from specific locations and/or with specific criterion attached (such as people experiencing sustained winds in excess of 35 knots, or those with rapidly degrading conditions, etc.). Temperature and dew point information is not needed. We remind those reporting stations to "please" do not report to us the weather information reported by your local media. We are interested ONLY in your personal observations, preferably measured by calibrated instrumentation.
Note: The above criteria may be changed without notice.
Throughout this event, we remind everyone that we are also available to provide backup communications facilities to official agencies such as Emergency Operations Centers and Red Cross officials in the affected area. We will also be interested to collect and report significant damage assessment data back to FEMA officials stationed in the National Hurricane Center.
Please honor our request that you should not check in to the net unless specifically requested to do so. We will attempt to handle all communications within the capabilities of our own members, and only when required assistance is needed will we ask for your help.
While our mission is specifically to provide storm related information into and out of the storm, please understand we are not involved in Health and Welfare traffic. That traffic will be handled by the SATERN net on 14.265.00 MHz, whenever activated, as well as on their website of www.satern.org. On the SATERN homepage, you will find a link for Health and Welfare Information. Fill out that form and they will get back with you as soon as possible. We will likely be reporting other emergency frequencies to be set up by local emergency management nets in the affected area. Please monitor 14.325.00 MHz for that information as it is made available.
As a final reminder, please monitor this web site for storm related advisory updates, graphics displays, and other data made available from the National Hurricane Center.
Thanks in advance for your support and cooperation during this extremely dangerous storm.
