Guidelines on integrating severe weather warnings into disaster risk management

PWS-13; WMO/TD No. 1292:

These guidelines address the application of risk management principles in the provision of severe weather warnings, and the use of this approach in efforts to secure extra funding from innovative sources. They are prepared with the central purpose of recommending a risk management action plan suitable for adoption by National Meteorological Services and National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMSs). While they are not meant to be an exhaustive treatise on disaster risk management, the intention is to promote the role of NMSs in disaster risk management, to encourage their more proactive involvement, and where appropriate lead in developing and implementing a risk management action plan.