National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program Office

NWIRP FY17-FY18 Biennial Report to Congress

NIST Launches Study of Hurricane Maria’s Impact on Puerto Rico

2020 Disaster Resilience Grants Program

Specific areas of research currently being solicited through the Disaster Resilience Grant 2020 funding opportunity include the development, advancement, and deployment of new sensors and methods to collect high spatiotemporal resolution data on windstorm phenomena to improve understanding of surface level wind features, extreme rainfall, and storm surge hazard information of relevance to:

wind and structural engineering risk assessment, analysis, and design and/or
high resolution meteorological modeling applications, such as embedded mesovortices and tornadoes in landfalling tropical cyclones.

National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program Staff

Scott Weaver	Director	301 975-5983
Steve Potts	Management & Program Analyst	301 975-5412
Marc Levitan	Research Wind Engineer	301 975-5340
Dereka Carroll-Smith	Research Meteorologist

News and Updates

Testimony - Calm Before the Storm: Reauthorizing the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program

December 4, 2019

WITNESS Dr. Scott Weaver Director, National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program Engineering Laboratory National Institute of Standards & Technology U.S

A home in the mountains of Puerto Rico lies in ruins as a result of the extreme force winds of Hurricane Maria.

NIST Launches Study of Hurricane Maria’s Impact on Puerto Rico

May 16, 2018

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced it will study the impacts of Hurricane Maria on

NIST Leads Federal Effort to Save Lives and Property from Windstorms

July 12, 2016

Congress recently designated the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be the lead agency for the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program

Progress Toward National Resiliency: NIST Marks Joplin Tornado 5th Anniversary

May 19, 2016

Disaster struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, when the deadliest and costliest single tornado in U.S. history left a 35-kilometer (22-mile) long path of

Events

VIRTUAL-2020 NIST Disaster Resilience Symposium

Tue, Jul 28 - Wed, Jul 29 2020

NIST is closely monitoring guidance from Federal, State, and local health authorities on the outbreak of COVID-19. To

2019 Disaster Resilience Symposium

Wed, Aug 7 - Thu, Aug 8 2019

The Engineering Laboratory at NIST, Gaithersburg, will be hosting its second annual symposium, August 7-8, 2019

2018 Disaster Resilience Symposium

Tue, Aug 14 - Wed, Aug 15 2018

The Engineering Laboratory at NIST, Gaithersburg, will be hosting a symposium featuring the 2016 Disaster Resilience

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Publications

Measurement Science R&D Roadmap for Windstorm and Coastal Inundation Impact Reduction

January 30, 2014

Author(s)

William Coulbourne, Jon Galsworthy, Horia Hangan, Christopher Jones, Chris Letchford, Thomas Smith

Windstorms, storm surge, and other coastal inundation events caused 4,045 fatalities and property losses of $250 billion (in 2012 dollars) in the United States

Final Report, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Technical Investigation of the May 22, 2011, Tornado in Joplin, Missouri

March 26, 2014

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Franklin T. Lombardo, Long T. Phan, Marc L. Levitan, David P. Jorgensen

This is the final report of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation of the May 22, 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, conducted

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