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NOAA and Indianapolis Motor Speedway Address Potential Race Day Weather Hazards
 Just
in time for the 2008 Indianapolis 500, officials from National
Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Indianapolis National
Weather Service office and Indianapolis Motor Speedway have
improved awareness, planning and communications for protecting
race fans from severe weather.
Earlier this week, National
Weather Service central region director Lynn Maximuk presented
speedway officials with a certificate recognizing the race
venue as a StormReadyŽ Supporter.
"StormReadyŽ encourages communities
and businesses to take a proactive approach to improving local
hazardous weather operations and public awareness," said Dave
Tucek, warning coordination meteorologist at NOAA's Indianapolis
weather forecast office.
"StormReadyŽ arms participants with improved
communication and safety skills needed to protect lives and
property. Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials have done
an outstanding job in developing the necessary infrastructure
to meet the criteria set forth by the StormReadyŽ program."
Speedway personnel worked
with Tucek and other local Weather Service personnel to meet
the guidelines necessary to earn NOAA's StormReadyŽ Supporter
recognition. To earn StormReadyŽ designation, Speedway officials
addressed:
 Establishing
a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations;
Redundant
ways to receive weather forecasts and warnings and to alert
race fans;
Creating
an internal system to monitor local weather conditions;
Promoting
the importance of public readiness through seminars;
Developing
a formal hazardous weather plan for training severe weather
spotters and holding emergency exercises.
 The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency
of the U.S. Commerce Department, is dedicated to enhancing
economic security and national safety through the prediction
and research of weather and climate-related events and information
service delivery for transportation, and by providing environmental
stewardship of our nation's coastal and marine resources.
Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System
of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal
partners, more than 70 countries and the European Commission
to develop a global monitoring network that is as integrated
as the planet it observes, predicts and protects.
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