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Severe Weather
Prepare for the storm. Protect the system.
Severe weather can disrupt healthcare operations, damage facilities, interrupt utilities, displace patients, and create sudden demands for medical services. Access resources to help healthcare organizations prepare, respond, and recover.
Ready for What Comes Next
Florida’s weather can change quickly, and severe weather can create challenges well beyond the initial event. Hurricanes, tropical storms, flooding, tornadoes, lightning, extreme heat, and other hazards can affect facilities, staff, patients, transportation, utilities, communications, and critical supplies.
Effective preparedness means understanding the hazards that affect your facility, protecting critical operations, establishing clear response procedures, and coordinating with regional partners before severe weather arrives.
Florida Department of Health specifically identifies healthcare system preparedness as a way to maintain the capacity and capability needed to provide critical public health and medical services during emergency events.
Tampa Bay HMPC Severe Weather Resources
Resources developed specifically for coalition members to support planning, training, and healthcare preparedness.
County Hurricane Preparedness Guides
Trusted Severe Weather External Resources
National Hurricane Center
Access official tropical cyclone forecasts, watches, warnings, storm information, and preparedness guidance from the National Hurricane Center. Monitor developing systems, projected storm tracks, wind and storm surge threats, and other information that can help healthcare organizations stay informed as tropical weather approaches.
State of Florida, Get a Plan
Build a personalized emergency plan using Florida's statewide preparedness resources. Get guidance on preparing for hurricanes, severe weather, evacuation, sheltering, emergency supplies, communications, and other steps that can help individuals, families, businesses, and organizations prepare before an emergency occurs.
Ready.gov
Explore practical preparedness information for severe weather and other hazards that can affect communities and critical operations. Find guidance for creating emergency plans, building emergency kits, receiving alerts, protecting property, staying safe during an event, and taking steps to recover after severe weather impacts your community.
NWS Southern Region Tropical Page
Monitor tropical weather activity across the Southern United States with information from the National Weather Service. Access current tropical forecasts, storm impacts, rainfall and thunderstorm outlooks, storm surge and coastal flooding information, satellite imagery, and local forecast products relevant to the Tampa Bay region.
Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council
Explore regional preparedness, resilience, and emergency planning resources supporting communities throughout the Tampa Bay area. The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council brings together local governments and regional partners to support coordinated planning and strengthen the region's ability to prepare for and respond to disasters and other emergencies.
FDEM Know Your Zone, Know Your Home Toolkit
Understand your property's evacuation zone and learn how location, construction, flood exposure, and other factors can affect your severe weather preparedness. Florida's Know Your Zone, Know Your Home resources provide practical information to help residents understand evacuation decisions, protect their homes, and develop a plan before a storm threatens the area.
Training Supports Stronger Response
Preparedness is not a one time event. Ongoing education, collaboration, and practice help healthcare organizations respond faster, recover more effectively, and better protect their communities during emergencies.
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