Tuesday, June 8, 2010

[FEMA]

Homeland Security Threat Level: YELLOW (ELEVATED)

Significant National Weather

West
Most of the region will remain dry as a high pressure system settles in over Montana today. By Wednesday, a new storm system will enter the Pacific Northwest bringing rain to Oregon and northern California before spreading eastward.
MidwestÂ*
Storms will move through the Central Plains and into the Midwest today, producing up to 4-5 inches of rain over portions of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana; damaging wind, tornadoes and large hail are possible. Storms are expected to continue overnight in the Great Lakes.
SouthÂ*
An upper level disturbance lifting northward from New Mexico will produce rain from Texas eastward into Louisiana over the next few days. A dissipating cold front will continue the threat of thunderstorms in Florida throughout the day.
NortheastÂ*
A warm front moving out of the Great Lakes will spread rain into the Northeast today with a slight chance of showers in north-central New England through Wednesday.
(NOAA)

Midwest Storm Recovery Update â June 5-6, 2010

Severe thunderstorms that occurred Saturday and Sunday, June 5-6 produced over 50 tornadoes in lower Michigan, northern Indiana, and northern Ohio Saturday evening, and northwestern Pennsylvania on Sunday. At the height of the storm, 77,000 customers in Michigan and Illinois were without power.
FEMA Region V is at Watch/Steady State and monitoring the situation.

Mississippi Canyon 252 Update

FEMA is supporting the operation by providing personnel to the National Integration Center and additional Logistics and External Affairs support to the Federal On-Scene Coordinator. FEMA is also leading the Social Services and Small Business Interagency Working Group (Claims and Benefits).
Relief well, booming/skimming, and in situ burning operations continue as weather permits. The Flow Rate Technical Group estimates the oil spill rate is between 12,000 and 19,000 barrels per day since the Top Hat apparatus was put in place. Oil and gas continue to flow to the Enterprise vessel for processing and a second storage vessel, the Massachusetts, will be used to increase the capacity of oil recovery.
NOAA reopened 339 square miles of fishing area off the Florida Panhandle but 78,264 square miles (32%) of the Gulf of Mexico economic enterprise zone remains closed. The primary oil plume is less than 5 miles from Pensacola and 260 miles from St Petersburg, Florida. NOAA trajectories continue to indicate tar balls and areas of light sheen may impact the beaches of the Florida Panhandle through Wednesday.
Â*(Deepwater Horizon JIC)
Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG)

No activity.Â* (FEMA HQ)

Tropical Weather Outlook

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected in the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific during the next 48 hours. No tropical cyclones are expected in the Central Pacific through Wednesday evening.Â*
(NOAA)

Earthquake Activity

No new activity (FEMA HQ)
Preliminary Damage Assessments

No new activity (FEMA HQ)
Wildfire Update

National Preparedness Level 2
National Fire Activity as of Monday, June 7, 2010: Initial attack activity:Â* Light (50 new fires)
New large fires: 2, Large fires contained: 1, Uncontained large fires: 11
States affected: AK, AZ, NM, TX & CO
(NIFC)
Disaster Declaration Activity

Amendment 4 to FEMA-1912-DR-KY was signed on June 7, closing the incident period effective June 1, 2010.Â*Â*
(FEMA HQ)



More...