Roger Owens (Emergency Manager), Israel Matos (WFO San Juan, PR, Meteorologist-in-Charge), Christa Von Hillebrandt (Puerto Rico Seismic Center Director), Bill Proenza, Victor Pepin Rodriguez (Dorado City Chief EM), Jesus F.Ortiz (Dorado City EM Volunteer), Rafael Mojica (WFO San Juan Warning Coordination Meteorologist), and in the background middle from left to right Orlando Bermudez and Ernesto Morales (WFO San Juan Forecasters). (photo, WFO San Juan)
Dorado Municipality, Puerto Rico, has earned both the National Weather Service TsunamiReadyTM and StormReady® designations, better equipping emergency managers to prepare and warn its citizens about tsunamis and severe weather.
With this designation Dorado Municipality is the second community in Puerto Rico to earn the TsunamiReady and StormReady status. Dorado joins the Mayaguez and Lajas municipalities as TsunamiReady and Mayaguez, San Lorenzo, and Juncos as StormReady.
Bill Proenza, Regional Director for the National Weather Service Southern Region, Israel Matos, Meteorologist-in-Charge, and Rafael Mojica, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, from the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in San Juan, PR, presented a TsunamiReady and StormReady toolkit to municipal officials on May 1, at the Rafael Hernandez Colon Pavilion, Dorado, PR. The toolkit includes road signs that identify tsunami inundation zones, evacuation routes and safe areas.
