Warning Preparedness Program Award

Warning Preparedness Program Award

Each year, the National Weather Association recognizes nine individuals and/or groups who make significant contributions to the field of Operational Meteorology, Broadcasting, and the NWA. This year’s winners accepted their honors at the National Weather Association’s Annual Awards Luncheon in Portland, Oregon during the Annual Meeting.

Public Education Award, 2004

Prairie Storm Prediction Centre’s Warning Preparedness Program, Winnipeg, Manitoba: Jay Anderson, Bob Cormier, Dan Kulak, John Parker, Dennis Dudley, and Brian Paruk

Meteorologists at the Prairie Storm Prediction Centre’s Warning Preparedness Program provide a unique and essential service of the Canadian Federal government, contributing to the health, safety, security and economic property of all Canadians.

Those named for this award were responsible for establishing a new national public warning program while based out of four separate cities: Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg.

Working within their respective communities, they were able to establish collaborative working relationships with school boards, enhancing the weather curriculums, working with the media to promote twice-a-year Severe Weather Awareness Weeks, and insert knowledge and experience into provincial, municipal and federal agencies' weather emergency preparedness activities.

They also coordinated and provided training for spotters across the region.

The Prairie media, schools, and emergency agencies quickly accepted the Warning Preparedness Meteorologists as Environment Canada’s voices on high-impact weather issues and weather preparedness, meeting a demand for weather awareness.

This Warning Preparedness Program has become a model for other regions of Canada and is now being adopted as a national program.


Webmaster's note: congratulations to our colleagues, the WPMs at the PASPC (formerly the PSPC) on receiving this award!

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Last update to this page: November 23, 2004