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2025-05-17

FEMA report says the disaster response agency isn't ready for hurricane season - CBS News
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2025-05-17
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2025-05-17
National Watch CenterDeclaration Requests in Process – 15
State / Tribe / Territory – Incident Description Type IA PA HM Requested
KY – Severe Winter Storms and Snowstorms DR X X Jan 30
OK – Wildfires and Straight -line Winds DR X X Mar 21
HI – Flooding DR X X Mar 27
MS – Severe Storms, Straight -line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding DR X X X Apr 1
MO – Severe Storms, Straight -line Winds, Tornadoes, and Wildfires  DR X X X Apr 2
MI – Severe Winter Storm EM X Apr 11
NE – Severe Winter Storm and Straight -line Winds DR X X Apr 14
KS – Severe Winter Storm, Straight -line Winds, Flooding, and Wildfire DR X X Apr 14
IA – Severe Winter Storm DR X X Apr 15
TX – Severe Weather and Flooding DR X X X Apr 17
TN – Severe Storms, Straight -line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding DR X X X Apr 17
Muscogee (Creek) Nation – Severe Winter Storm DR X X Apr 21
MO – Severe Storms, Straight -line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding  DR X X X Apr 30
AR – Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding  DR X X X May 3
WA – Severe Storms, Straight -line Winds, Flooding, Landslides and Mudslides (Appeal)  DR X X May 7
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2025-05-17
Region State / Location IncidentIA Number of CountiesStart – EndPA Requested Complete
V INSevere Storms
Mar 30 – Apr 9IA 6 4 5/13 – TBD
PA 28 4 (+2) 5/13 – TBD
VIII RST*Severe Storms and Tornadoes
Apr 27IA 1 1 (+1) 5/14 – 5/16 
PA 1 1 (+1) 5/14 – 5/16 
National Watch CenterJoint Preliminary Damage Assessments
*Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Disaster Info Botdisaster_bot@m.ai6yr.org
2025-05-17
IM Cadre Availability  20 Cadres ≤ 25% Availability IM Workforce
Alternative Dispute Resolution: 25% (8/32); Civil Rights: 15% ( 22/144); Disaster Field Training Operations: 21% (17/82); 
Disability Integration: 22% (7/32); Disaster Survivor Assistance: 23% (273/1,178); External Affairs: 6% (23/374); Environmental 
Planning and Historic Preservation: 7% ( 61/828); Field Leadership: 3% (4/133); Financial Management: 16% (35/223); Hazard 
Mitigation: 8% (86/1,129); Human Resources: 13% (22/171); Individual Assistance: 17% (424/2,516); Interagency Recovery 
Coordination: 18% (51/290); Information Technology: 13% (88/688); Logistics: 17% (268/1,596); Operations: 9% (33/352); 
Public Assistance: 10% (226/2,224); Planning: 6% (26/432); Safety: 12% (11/95); Security: 16% ( 20/127)28 Assigned
5 (+1) Unavailable
0 Deployed
23 (-1) Available36 Assigned
3 Unavailable
1 Deployed
32 AvailableMERS
≥ 66%US&R
≥ 66%JFO Office: Bothell, WA
FEMA -XXXX -DR: 
Declared 4/28 FEMA Common Operating Picture
FEMA HQ
NWC NRCC
Monitoring Steady State
FEMA REGIONS
Watch RRCC
Monitoring I Rostered
Monitoring II Rostered
Monitoring III Rostered
Enhanced IV Rostered
Enhanced V Rostered
Monitoring VI Rostered
Enhanced VII Rostered
Monitoring VIII Rostered
Monitoring IX Rostered
Monitoring X Rostered
Notes:
NRCC/RWCs/RRCCs:
•RIV/RV/ RVII  RWC: 
Severe WeatherState EOCs :
•HI/TX/AZ: Wildfires
•AL/FL /KY/MO/NC/
    TN/VA: Severe Weather
•FL/NC: Previous Incidents
•ND/AZ : Fire Weather
•WV/MD: Flooding
•DC: U.S.
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2025-05-17
Minor Space Weather Activity Geomagnetic StormsSolar
RadiationRadio
Blackouts
Past 24  Hours Moderate G2 None None
Next  24 Hours Moderate G2 None None
HF Communication Impact Sunspot Activity
National Watch CenterSpace Weather Outlook
For further information on NOAA Space Weather Scales refer to:  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa -scales -explanation
For further information on Sunspot Activity refer to:  https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/sunspotssolar -cycle
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2025-05-17
National Watch Center(Evacuations: M = Mandatory / V = Voluntary; Structures: H = Homes and Mixed Commercial/Residential / O = Non -residential Commer cial/Other Minor Structures)Wildfire Summary
Fire Name
(County, ST)FMAG #Acres
BurnedPercent 
ContainedEvacuationsStructures (Homes / Other) Fatalities / 
Injuries Threatened Damaged Destroyed
Munger Shaw
(Saint Louis, MN )
FINAL5583 -FM-MN 1,600 50% (+25)M: LIFTED H: 1 H: 0 H: 0
0 / 0
V: 0 O: 0 O: 1 O: 3
Greer
(Apache, AZ)5584 -FM-AZ12,616 
(+3,108)0%M: 600
 H: 200
 H: 0 H: 7
0 / 0
V: 0 O: 0 O: 0 O: 0
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2025-05-17
National Watch CenterHazards Outlook – May 19 -23
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2025-05-17
Today Tomorrow
National Watch CenterFire Weather Outlook
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2025-05-17
National Watch CenterPrecipitation & Excessive Rainfall
Sat-Mon Sat
Sun
Mon
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2025-05-17
National Weather Forecast
National Watch Center
Sat Sun
Mon
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2025-05-17
National Watch CenterSevere Weather Outlook
Sat Sun
Mon
Disaster Info Botdisaster_bot@m.ai6yr.org
2025-05-17
Severe Thunderstorms – Southern Plains to Mid-Atlantic
National Watch Center
Lifeline Impacts :
Energy:  (Eagle -I, as of 9:20 a.m. ET, May 17)
Region IV: 181k (-33k) / 9% customers without power 
Region V: 294k (+32k) / 2% customers without power
Region VII: 88k (+7k) / 3% customers without power
Health & Medical:
Region IV : KY 14 fatalities (RIV RA, as of 8:57 a.m. ET, May 17)
Region VII: MO 7 fatalities
State / Local Response : (IAB, as of 2:00 p.m. ET, May 16)
Region IV: 
▪KY SEOC is at Full Activation (Severe Weather)
▪AL, NC, and TN SEOCs are at Monitoring (Severe 
Weather) (DSAR, as of 2:00 p.m. ET, May 16)
Region V: All SEOCs are at Normal Operations 
Region VII: MO SEOC is at Partial Activation (Severe 
Weather)Situation and Analysis: Severe weather continues to impact states in the southern Mississippi Valley to Mid -Atlantic with multiple watches remaining in effect. Early yesterday afternoon, a tornado was 
reported in St Louis, Missouri causing damage to structures and reports of up to 7 fatalities. Media reports indicate some of the structure damage was moderate but within the capacity of the state’s 
response capabilities. As of 8:49 a.m. ET, the Storm Prediction Center reports 7 High Wind Reports, 46 Large Hail Reports, and 28 Tornadoes reported across states located in the Mississippi Valley 
to the Mid -Atlantic. (SPC Storm Report as of 8:49 am. ET, May 17 ).
In north central Texas, another round of severe storms is expected later today. Damaging winds and
Disaster Info Botdisaster_bot@m.ai6yr.org
2025-05-17
Federal Emergency Management Agency
National Current Ops / Monitoring
National Watch CenterNew Significant Incidents / Ongoing Ops
▪Severe Thunderstorms – Southern Plains to Mid-AtlanticHazard Monitoring
▪Severe Thunderstorms – Southern Plains, Northeast 
▪Heavy Rain/ Flash Flooding – Northeast
▪Critical Fire Weather – Southwest
Event Monitoring
▪No new significant eventsDisaster Declaration Activity
▪No new declaration activity
Disaster Info Botdisaster_bot@m.ai6yr.org
2025-05-17
Daily Operations Briefing
Saturday, May 17, 2025
8:30 a.m. ETFEMA National Watch Center
2025-05-17

"In four of the agency’s 122 weather forecasting offices around the country, there aren’t enough meteorologists to staff an overnight shift, according to the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union representing agency workers. And at least several more forecast offices are expected to stop staffing an overnight shift as early as Sunday."

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For at least half a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. But after the U.S. DOGE Service led efforts to shrink the federal government, that is no longer possible in some parts of the country.
In four of the agency’s 122 weather forecasting offices around the country, there aren’t enough meteorologists to staff an overnight shift, according to the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union representing agency workers. And at least several more forecast offices are expected to stop staffing an overnight shift as early as Sunday.
2025-05-16

Tens of millions of Americans are expected to be at risk of severe weather this weekend as many states brace for high winds and tornadoes....

#unitedstates #extremeweather #tornadoes #disasters #highwinds #weathernews

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

2025-05-16

Three people tell stories of when stockpiling in case of #disasters and precarious employment paid off

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m #preparedness

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