AGENDA
Flash
Flood Awareness for Central Texas
Friday,
October 8, 2010
Co-sponsored
by LCRA and University of Texas at Austin
LOCATION:
LCRA’s
Red Bud Center
3601
Lake Austin Boulevard, Austin, TX
Room
108 North & South
9:00-9:20
Introduction and goals for the workshop: Flash Flood Awareness for Central Texas ( David Maidment, UT Austin)
9:20-9:40
Tropical Storm Hermine (Bob Rose, LCRA)
9:40-11:00
How is flash flood awareness created now?
Speakers:
Hector Guerrero, National Weather Service
Susan Janek, City of Austin
David Walker, LCRA
Jack Kayser,
TxDOT
11:00–11:20
Break
11:20–12:30
Technology developments impacting flash flood awareness
Situational
Awareness system for emergency responders in Frisco, Texas Web-GIS and web
services using ArcGIS (Dr. David Maidment)
Water
web services for Nexrad data from UT Arlington (John McEnery)
“Keep
Austin Weird” Twitter application (Traci Tracey,
ESRI)
12:30–1:30
Lunch (provided) and discussion
1:30–2:45
Need for a public flash flood information system
Tom
Donaldson – NWS
Bruce
Barr – Texas Association of Counties
Larry
Quick – Upper Brushy Creek Water Control and Improvement District
2:45–3:00
Break
3:00–
4:30
Planning for what could be done
General
discussion about what is needed – see Discussion
Summary. Powerpoint
summary of Key Topics
4:30
Close