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<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
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<title>MakeHazard Procedure</title>
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<body>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">MakeHazard</h1>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<h2>A Procedure for Creating Hazards</h2>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="#methodology">Methodology</a><br>
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<a href="#howitworks">How It Works</a><br>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
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<h2><a name="methodology"></a>Methodology</h2>
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</div>
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<br>
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</div>
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<br>
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<big>The MakeHazard procedure is the primary interface for creating and
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editing hazards in GFE, excluding convective and tropical
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hazards, which have their own procedures (<a href="PlotSPCWatches.html">PlotSPCWatches</a>
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and <a href="PlotTPCEvents.html">PlotTCPEvents</a>). For more on how
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to use the MakeHazard tool
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and general hazard methodology, check <a href="Hazard_Methodology.html">Hazard
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Methodlogy</a>.<br>
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<br>
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<a href="#starting">Starting MakeHazard</a><br>
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<a href="#buttondescription">Description of Interface</a><br>
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<a href="#shortcuts">Shortcuts</a><br>
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<a href="#configuration">Configuration</a><br>
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<big><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
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<a name="starting"></a>Starting MakeHazard</span></big><br
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style="font-weight: bold;">
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<br>
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MakeHazard is started by selecting <span
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style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">MakeHazard</span> under
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the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hazards</span>
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menu.<br>
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<br>
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<img style="width: 243px; height: 273px;" alt="Make Hazards Menu"
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src="images/MakeHazardsMenu.png"><br>
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<br>
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<big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Description of MakeHazard
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Interface<br>
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<br>
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</span></big>After selecting this, the tool interface will display<br>
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<br>
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<img style="width: 1008px; height: 629px;"
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alt="Make Hazards Tool (Blank)" src="images/MakeHazards.png"><br>
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<br>
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Here is the function of each component:<br>
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<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a
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name="buttondescription"></a>Map Area</span><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Map</span> - This
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displays the area of a potential hazard visually.<br>
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<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Zoom In Button</span>
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- Zooms closer in on map.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Zoom Out Button</span>
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- Zoom further out on map.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Zoom 1:1</span> -
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Returns map to default zoom level.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br>
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Clear</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">All</span>
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Clears all selected counties from map.<br>
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</big><big><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Select</span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">All</span> -
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Selects all selected counties on map.<br>
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</big><br>
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<big><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Map Labels</span>
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- When checked, labels the zones (WIZ001 format) or counties (WIC001
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format).<br>
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<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Select Hazard
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Area</span><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hazard List</span>
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- Allows the selection of one hazard from list.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hazard Category
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Toggles</span> - Allows selection of general categories of Hazards, and
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changes Hazard List as needed.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">ETN/Segment Number</span>
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- Allows entry of an ETN (Only TO.A or SV.A, not normally needed), or a
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segment identifier.<br>
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<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Time Area</span><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Start Hazard Time</span>
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- Sets the starting time of the hazard in the grid.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">End Hazard Time</span>
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- Sets the ending time of the hazard in the grid.<br>
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<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Invocation
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Buttons</span><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Run</span> - Runs
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the tool for selected settings<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Run/Dismiss</span>
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- Runs the tool, then closes.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Cancel</span> -
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Closes the tool without running.<br>
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<br>
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</big><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="shortcuts"></a>Shortcuts<br>
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</span></big></big><br>
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The following tips may help:<br>
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<ul>
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<li>The Hazard Grids are automatically separated when the procedure
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is started.</li>
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<li>It can be tedious to always have to select the time area, zones,
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category, and hazard. If you already have a temporary
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hazard element selected (simply by clicking on the weather element or a
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grid in that weather element, then the time selectors, the hazard, and
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the category and zones will automatically be set when the interface is
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displayed.<br>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<big><br>
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</big><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="configuration"></a>Configuration
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of MakeHazard<br>
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<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><small>You can easily
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configure the hazards which display in the hazard lists, and the
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categories available, by creating an override at SITE level to the
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procedure. In the configuration
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section, located in method setUI, you can set the map types, hazard
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lists, categories, default categories, and more.
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See the example below.<br>
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<br>
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<img style="width: 800px; height: 881px;"
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alt="MakeHazard Configuration screen" src="images/MakeHazardConfig.png"><br>
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<br>
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<br>
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The most important sections for configuration are the mapNames and the
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hazardDict. Each hazard that you want to appear in the
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menus must be associated with a category. Each category
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must be associated with a map background (or map
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backgrounds). For example, the HU.W (Hurricane Warning) is
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part of the "Tropical Cyclone" group in the hazardDict. The
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"Tropical Cyclone" category uses the Zones_<site>,
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Marine_Zones_<site>, and Offshore_Marine_Zones_<site> map
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backgrounds.<br>
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<br>
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If the lists are not synchronized properly, then the procedure will not
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work. Categories may be added and removed, and individual
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hazards may be added and removed (including locally defined
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hazards). The list of map backgrounds contain <site>,
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which is replaced with your real site identifier when the procedure
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runs. The list of map backgrounds assumes that you are using the
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standard set of map shapefiles and map names as defined in <a
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href="mapConfig.html">Maps.py</a>.<br>
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<br>
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</small></big></big>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
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<h2><a name="howitworks"></a>How It Works</h2>
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The MakeHazard first separates out the Hazards grid into separate haz*
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temporary weather elements. The user chooses the type of
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event, the time, and the area (either on the grid as a selected area or
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by using the map), and presses Run or Run/Dismiss. The
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temporary weather element is created (if not already there) and the
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grid is created/edited as appropriate.<br>
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</body>
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</html>
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