Emergency Management Department

City of Humble Office of Emergency Management

The City of Humble Office of Emergency Management Department mandates the response and recovery during unfortunate circumstances in the Humble area. We work closely with the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in preparing for and responding to disasters to ensure public safety.

Emergency Management Director: Norman Funderburk

Emergency Management Coordinator: James Nykaza

E-mail: jnykaza@cityofhumble.net

Assistant Emergency Management Coordinator: Steve Forbes

E-mail: sforbes@cityofhumble.net

Emergency Management Specialist: Josh Krause

E-mail: jkrause@cityofhumble.net

Phone: 281-446-4928

Address: 110 W. Main Street, Humble, Texas 77338

Mission

Our Mission is to provide a comprehensive and integrated office of emergency management system that coordinates community resources to protect lives, property, and the environment through mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery from all-natural and man-made hazards that may impact our City. The City of Humble has adopted the Harris County Office of Emergency Management Plan and Hazard Mitigation Plan. The City of Humble works closely with the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in preparing for and responding to disasters.

Preparing for and Recovery from Hurricane Season, Disasters and Floods

Important Links

Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Texas Office of Emergency Management
US Department of Homeland Security
The National Hurricane Center
FEMA
American Red Cross
Community Response Task Force

StormReady Community

The City of Humble has received recognition from the National Weather Service as a StormReady Community.
Being part of a Weather-Ready Nation is about preparing for your community’s increasing vulnerability to extreme weather and water events. Americans live in the most severe weather-prone country on Earth. Some 98 percent of all Presidentially declared disasters are weather-related, leading to around 500 deaths per year and nearly $23 billion in damage. The StormReady program helps arm America’s communities with the communication and safety skills needed to save lives and property–before, during, and after the event. StormReady helps community leaders and emergency managers strengthen local safety programs.

StormReady communities, counties, Indian nations, universities and colleges, military bases, government sites, commercial enterprises, and other groups are better prepared to save lives from the onslaught of severe weather through advanced planning, education, and awareness. No community is stormproof, but StormReady can help communities save lives.
StormReady uses a grassroots approach to help communities develop plans to handle all types of extreme weather—from tornadoes to winter storms. The program encourages communities to take a new, proactive approach to improve local hazardous weather operations by providing emergency managers with clear-cut guidelines on how to improve their hazardous weather operations. To be officially StormReady, a community must:

Establish a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center
Have more than one way to receive severe weather warnings and forecasts and to alert the public
Create a system that monitors weather conditions locally
Promote the importance of public readiness through community seminars
Develop a formal hazardous weather plan, which includes training severe weather spotters and holding emergency exercises.