Federal Government

Environment Canada. Freshwater Website. The Management of Water. Floods. Tsunamis

A substantial amount of the information in the Floods section of the Freshwater Web site is taken from the following publication: "Canada Water Book on Flooding. 1993". Jeanne Andrews (ed.). Environment Canada. Ottawa, Ontario.

Environment Canada. Meteorological Service of Canada. Severe Weather Watcher Handbook. Tornadoes and Funnel Clouds

Volunteer weather watchers' reports of severe weather are sometimes the only information available concerning local weather events. For interested volunteers, this Handbook provides the knowledge to report weather information effectively and accurately.

Government of Canada. Public Safety

The Public Safety Portal is your one-window entry to all public safety information from the Government of Canada.

Radio-Canada Nouvelles. Une tornade frappe le Québec (available in French only)

Mise à jour le mercredi 7 juillet 1999, 20 h 32

Provincial/Territorial Government

Government of British Columbia. Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General. Provincial Emergency Program. Tsunami Preparedness

The Provincial Emergency Program, as an essential part of the public safety network of British Columbia, will be the leader in emergency management, helping people to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies and disasters.

Other

American Avalanche Association.

The American Avalanche Association (AAA) is comprised of a collective group of dedicated professionals engaged in the study, forecasting, control and mitigation of snow avalanches.

Canadian Avalanche Association

The Canadian Avalanche Association is dedicated to bringing the avalanche community together to develop knowledge and understanding of avalanches, facilitate communication, promote professionalism, and provide quality avalanche education.

Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction

Canada’s property and casualty insurers founded the Institute in 1998. ICLR is a coordinated effort to reduce disaster losses involving member insurance companies, The University of Western Ontario and other partners.

Pacific Tsunami Museum

The goal of the Pacific Tsunami Museum is to promote public tsunami education for the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Region.

United States Government. Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. Hurricane Research Division.

The Hurricane Research Division (HRD) is a part of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). We are engaged in advancing the basic physical understanding and improving the forecasts of hurricanes and tropical meteorological systems.

United States Government. Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Severe Storms Laboratory

The mission of the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) is to enhance the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) capabilities to provide accurate and timely forecasts and warnings of hazardous weather events (such as blizzards, ice storms, flash floods, tornadoes, lightning.)

United States Government. Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Weather Service. West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.

The U.S.West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WC/ATWC) was established in Palmer, Alaska in 1967 as a direct result of the great Alaskan earthquake that occurred in Prince William Sound on March 27, 1964. This earthquake alerted State and Federal officials to the need for a facility to provide timely and effective tsunami warnings and information for the coastal areas of Alaska.

United States Government. Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Tropical Prediction Center. National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) maintains a continuous watch on tropical cyclones from 15 May in the eastern Pacific and 1 June in the Atlantic through November 30. The Center prepares and issues forecasts, watches and warnings within text advisories and graphical products.