•Daily Operations BriefingTuesday, December 24, 2013

8:30 a.m. EST

Severe/Winter Weather – Great Lakes to New EnglandSituation:• System that crossed the Plains and into New England this past weekend exited into the Atlantic this morning• Weather conditions have generally improved across most of the eastern U.S.

Impacts:• No significant widespread damage was reported• As of 7:45 a.m. EST, there were approximately 285,000 customers without power across Michigan and Maine

o MI (174k, peak 328k); restoration efforts continue o ME (111k, peak 210k); restoration efforts continue

• Michigan - More than 2,000 power company employees focused on the storm restoration effortso Majority of customers in Michigan should have power restored no later than Dec 28

• At this time, no significant issues have been reported to the Department of Energy regarding restoration efforts• Shelters: MI – 11 open, 304 occupants; ME – 2 open, no occupants

State Response: • All States EOCs are at Normal Operations• No requests for FEMA assistance

FEMA Response: • NRCC is not activated; the NWC remains at Watch/Steady State • All RRCCs and RWCs are at Watch/Steady State

Earthquake ActivityM5.2 – San Juan, PR • Occurred at 4:45 p.m. EST on December 23, 2013

• 500 miles N of San Juan, PR• 900 miles E of Miami, FL• Depth of 2 miles

• USGS issued a green PAGER alert indicating:• Low likelihood of casualties and damage • No population exposed to earthquake shaking

• No reports of injury or damage; no tsunami generated

Stanley, Falkland Islands

Argentina

741 miles

800 miles

Earthquake ActivityM4.3 – Coco Junction, CA• Occurred at 8:39 a.m. EST on December 23, 2013

• 32 miles S of Lone Pine, CA• 228 miles SSE of Carson City, NV• Depth of 0 miles

• USGS issued a green PAGER alert indicating:• Low likelihood of casualties and damage • No population exposed to earthquake shaking

• No reports of injury or damage

Stanley, Falkland Islands

Argentina

741 miles

800 miles

Declaration Requests in ProcessRequests

APPROVED(since last report)

Requests DENIED(since last report)

2 Date Requested 0 0

AR – Winter Storm (December 5-8, 2013) December 23, 2013

IN – Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds & Tornadoes (Appeal) (November 17, 2013) December 23, 2013

Disaster Requests & Declarations

Major Disaster Declaration Request – ARDecember 23, 2013• Major Disaster Declaration Request for the State of Arkansas• For a Winter Storm that occurred December 5-8, 2013• Requesting:

• Public Assistance for 13 counties• Hazard Mitigation statewide

= Requested counties

Arkansas

Appeal to Major Disaster Request – INDecember 23, 2013• Governor is appealing the denial of a Major Disaster Declaration Request • For Severe Storms, Straight Line Winds, and Tornadoes on November 17, 2013• Appealing:

• Individual Assistance for Howard County• Hazard Mitigation statewide

• Requesting:• Individual Assistance for 5 other counties• Hazard Mitigation statewide

= Requested counties= Appealed county

Indiana

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

National Weather Forecast

Active Watches/Warnings

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

River Forecast – 7 Day

Precipitation Forecast – 3 Day

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

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

Convective Outlooks Days 1 – 3 Day 2

Day 3

Day 1

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

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

Day 3-8

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/threats/threats_ie.php

Hazard Outlook: Dec 23 - 27

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

Open Field Offices as of December 24, 2013

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• FCOs - Red due to insufficient Type 1 FCOs • FDRCs – Yellow due to number available

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 7 54% 0 1 5

• Deployed team locations: PA, NC, SD, CO & 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

RWCs/MOCs 10 10 100% 0 0 24/7