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•Daily Operations Briefing May 31, 2013

As of 8:30 a.m. EDT

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Significant Activity: May 30 - 31 Significant Events:

• Severe weather – Central U.S.

• Oklahoma tornado recovery (FINAL)

• Alaska ice jam flooding (FINAL)

• Earth flyby of Asteroid 1998 QE2

Tropical Activity:

• No activity

Significant Weather:

• Moderate/slight risk of severe thunderstorms – Southern Plains to Great Lakes

• Flash flooding – Southern Plains to Middle Mississippi & Ohio valleys; Northern Plains

• Rain & thunderstorms – most of US, except West and East coasts, Southwest & Great Basin

• Red Flag Warnings: CA, NM, CO, KS & AK

• Critical Fire Weather Areas: NM

• Space Weather: Past 24 hours: None; Next 24 hours: None

Earthquake Activity: No significant activity

Declaration Activity: Texas Appeal - Major Disaster Declaration

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FEMA Response

• 604 total FEMA personnel deployed or en route

• JFO operational in Oklahoma City; N-IMAT-White remains deployed to OK

▲JFO suspended field activities Thursday afternoon due to thunderstorm activity;

returned to normal operations this morning

▲Assets deployed to OK: 1 MRIC (Mobile Registration Intake Center), 3 DRCs

(Disaster Recovery Centers), 10 (+2) MCOVs and elements of 2 MERS detachments

• NRCC not activated; NWC at Watch/Steady State

• FEMA Region VI RRCC at Watch/Steady State

State Response

• OK State EOC partially activated; Unified Command established

• National Guard personnel remain deployed

▲6 shelters open with 307 (-3) occupants (NSS; as of 6:00 am EDT, May 31)

Oklahoma Tornado Recovery – May 20 (FINAL)

Impacted counties

Situation

• Focus of operations remains on clean-up & recovery

• FEMA Modeling Task Force’s preliminary damage assessments unchanged:

o Destroyed: 1,248; Major damage: 452; Minor damage: 640; Impacted: 1,597

o Assessments based on aerial data; several more days until ground assessments

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Severe Weather – Central U.S.

Summary for May 30-31, 2013

• Severe storms continued to moved across the Plains & Great Lakes,

• 286 storm reports, including16 possible tornado sightings

• Tornado touched down in Broken Arrow, AR; some homes & businesses

damaged

• Minor property damage - widespread downed trees and power lines

• Media reports 8 injuries in southwest AR

• Sporadic power outages, most notably in AR

• River levels rising, flash flooding occurring across Plains & river basins

• Sand bagging, swift water rescues & voluntary evacuations in AR & IA

• Meskwaki Tribe, IA (pop 1,300) 17 of 18 tribal homes flooded

State/Local Response

• IA, OK, and ND EOCs partially activated for flood response

• All remaining affected State EOCs at normal operations

• No unmet needs

FEMA / Federal Response

• Region VII RRCC at Level III in support of flooding response in IA & KS

• IMAT-2 & DCO preparing to deploy to IA

• 1 Liaison Team deployed to IA EOC

• 2 Tribal Liaisons deployed to KS & IA

• Region VIII RRCC activated to Level III in support of storm/flooding response

Global Volcanism Program

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Ice Jam Flooding – Alaska (FINAL)

Current Situation

▲ Ice jam weakened and broke as of 11:00 pm EDT Wednesday, May 29

• Water from inundated areas below Galena slowly moving downstream

▲ Water subsiding in Galena, but minor flooding will continue for several days

▲ At Koyukuk, a village downriver from Galena, water rose 15 inches with only

minor flooding – high water has passed downstream & ice is starting to move

south

Impacts

▲ Almost every building in Galena suffered damage; airport runway is only area not

inundated

• 288 people were evacuated to other communities

• Power & water systems remain out

▲ Falling water levels left a large amount of stranded ice, making access difficult

Response

• AK EOC remains partially activated; no unmet needs

▲ 3 shelters open with 27 (-10) occupants (NSS; as of 6:00 am EDT, May 31)

• FEMA Region X remains at Watch/Steady State

• No requests for FEMA assistance

Photo credit: NWS - AK -ROC

Photo credits; National

Weather Service

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Earth Flyby of Asteroid 1998 QE2 • At 4:59 p.m. EDT, Friday, May 31, asteroid 1998 QE2 will pass by Earth

at a safe distance of 3.6 million miles

• This is a “0” (No Hazard) on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale

• Asteroid was discovered August 19, 1998, by MIT’s Lincoln Near Earth

Asteroid Research Program located near Socorro, NM

• More information about asteroids and near-Earth objects is available at: • http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/

• http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch

• http://www.twitter.com/asteroidwatch

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

National Weather Forecast

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Active Watches/Warnings

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

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High Temperature Forecast

http://graphical.weather.gov/

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Precipitation Forecast Days 1-3

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/d13_fill.gif

Day 1

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1-3

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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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http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/

Convective Outlooks Days 1 – 3

Day 1 Day 2

Day 3

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

Critical Fire Weather Areas Days 1 – 8

Day 1 Day 2

Day 3-8

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

Hazard Outlook: June 2- 6

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http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

Drought Monitor as of May 28, 2013

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www.spaceweather.com

http://www.swpc.noaa.n/index.html

http://

Space Weather

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

Past 24 Hours Current Next 24 Hours

Space Weather Activity: None None Minor

• Geomagnetic Storms None None None

• Solar Radiation Storms None None None

• Radio Blackouts None None None

HF Communication Impact Sunspot Activity

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

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Hurricane Preparedness Week

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/

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Hurricane Preparedness Week Get a Plan

Develop and document plans for your specific risks

• Protect yourself and family with a Family Emergency Plan

• Be sure to plan for locations away from home

• Business owners and site locations should create Workplace Plans

• Make sure schools and daycares have School Emergency Plans

• Pet owners should have plans to care for their animals. The Centers

for Disease Control & Prevention offer information on animal health

impacts in evacuation shelters.

• Prepare your boat and be aware of marine safety if you are on or

near the water.

Note: Additional information can be found at: http://www.ready.gov/

Photo’s: Courtesy of NOAA

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Joint Preliminary Damage Assessments

Region State /

Location Event IA/PA

Number of Counties Start – End

Requested Complete

I VT Flooding

May 2013 PA 3 (+1) 0 5/29 – 5/31

VI OK Severe Storms & Tornadoes

May 2013 PA 5 0 TBD - TBD

VIII *SRST (ND) Flooding

May 25, 2013 & continuing PA 2 Tribes 0 5/30 – TBD

IX **RMI Severe Drought

2012- Ongoing N/A 1 0 5/16 – TBD

* SRST = Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

**In support of USAID/OFDA the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)

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Open Field Offices as of May 31, 2013

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Disaster Requests & Declarations

Declaration Requests in Process Requests APPROVED

(since last report)

Requests DENIED

(since last report)

3 Date Requested 0 0

TX – DR Explosion (Request for PA) May 16, 2013

IA – DR Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding

May 23, 2013

TX – DR (Appeal) Explosion (Request for IA) May 30, 2013

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Deployed Detailed Available Not Available Total

20 2 12 2 36

OFDC Cadre Member Status

Total Available Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Type 4

14* 2 5 5 2

As of: 05/25/2013

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

Positions On Board Available Deployed Pending Hire

10 8 3 5 1

Federal Coordinating Officer

Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator

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MCOV Fleet / Deployment Status

Fully Mission Capable 49 Partially Mission Capable 0 Non-Mission Capable 6 Total Not Deployed 38

MCOV FLEET STATUS MCOV DISASTER SUPPORT DEPLOYMENTS

Location Units

Assigned

Available

FMC

Deployed

Committed PMC NMC DR-State OPCON

En

Route Unit Prep

Open

Request Notes:

DC Cumberland 2 0 0 0 2 DR-4116-IL 7 0 0

MERS Maynard 1 1 0 0 0 DR-4117-OK 10 0

MERS Frederick 8 3 5 0 0 0 0 0

MERS Thomasville 14 11 1 0 2 0 0 0

DC Ft Worth 20 9 10 0 1 0 0 0

MERS Denver 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

MERS Bothell 4 3 0 0 1 0 0 0

Sacramento 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0

TOTAL 55 32 17 0 6 TOTAL 17 0 0 0

Included in above totals, units in route for turn-in. 0 0

Data as of: 05/31/13 @ 0800

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Active IA Disasters - Referral Status & Awards

Data as of: 05/30/13 @ 1500 # Max Grants = Applicants awarded maximum IHP ($31,900 as of FY 2013)

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IA Registration Statistics

NPSC Call Data for May 29, 2013

Total Calls Answered (Help Line + Registration Intake) 6,488

Average time to answer call 13 seconds

IA Registrations and IHP Amounts as of May 30, 2013 @ 1500

DR/EM # - State Registrations Approved

Applicants Total HA Approved

Total ONA

Approved Total IHP Approved

3363 - TX 743 192 $308,419 $361,604 $670,023

4116 - IL 37,341 23,230 $58,597,885 $8,021,012 $66,618,897

4117 – OK 5,820 863 $3,223,659 $997,807 $4,221,466

Totals 43,904 24,285 $62,129,963 $9,380,423 $71,510,386

24 hour change +2,128 +1,323 +$2,534,498 +$582,833 +$3,117,331

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Housing Inspection Statistics

Inspection Data as of May 30, 2013 @ 1500

DR/EM # - State Inspectors Inspections

Assigned

Inspections

Completed

Inspection %

Complete

Turnaround Time

(Days)

3363 - TX 1 357 354 99.16% 1.1

4116 - IL 184 34,822 32,402 93.05% 1.2

4117 - OK 19 1,705 1,573 92.26% 1.3

Totals 204 36,884 34,329 93.07% 1.2

24 hour change -22 +1,891 +1,900 +0.40% -0.0

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Workforce Type Total Available To

Deploy

Committed To

Other Activities (All Exemptions)

Deployed Operational Readiness

Reservist 6,533 3,496 (55%) 574 (9%) 2,463 (36%) Mission Capable

Cadre of On-Call Response Employees

(CORE) 2,618 935 (35%) 10 (0%) 1,673 (65%) Mission Capable

Permanent Full Time (PFT) 4,990 4,231 (83%) 19 (0%) 740 (17%) Mission Capable

FEMA Corps 705 88 (8%) 4 (0%) 613 (92%) Deployed

DHS Surge Capacity Force 3,720 633 (15%) *3,087 (85%) 0 (0%) Awaiting DHS/FEMA Activation

Workforce Totals 18,566 9,383 (50%) 3,694 (20%) 5,489 (30%)

= <70% Deployed/Mission Capable = 70% - 79% Deployed/Partially Mission Capable

= >80% Deployed

= >80% Committed to Other Activities- Awaiting DHS/FEMA Activation

*Deployable based on FEMA’s need for DHS activation

FEMA Workforce Status Report

Data as of 5/29/13

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IMAT Status National Teams

Team Status Team Status Team Status

BLUE (East)

NYC WHITE (Central)

OK RED (West)

Regional Teams

Team Status Team Status Team Status

Region I NH Region V IL Region VIII ND/SD

Region II Region VI-1 OK Region IX-1

Region III Region VI-2 TX Region IX-2

Region IV-1 Region VII Region X

Region IV-2

= 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 Non-operational PA-TF1 Conditionally

Available

CA-TF7 Available NV-TF1 Conditionally Available VA-TF1 Available

CA-TF8 Available TN-TF1 Conditionally 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

*Red IST demobilized on May 24

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Region RRCC Regional Watch Center

I Watch/Steady State Maynard MOC (24/7)

II Watch/Steady State 24/7

III Watch/Steady State 24/7

IV Watch/Steady State 24/7

V Watch/Steady State 24/7

VI Watch/Steady State Denton MOC (24/7)

VII Level III 24/7

VIII Level III Denver MOC (24/7)

IX Watch/Steady State 24/7

X Watch/Steady State Bothell MOC (24/7)

RRCC / Regional Watch Center Status

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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 Will activate June 1

DEST Washington, DC Not Activated

Mission Capable Partially Mission Capable Not Mission Capable

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