Nashville.gov

Office of Emergency Management

Emergency Operations Center

Mobile EOC

Urban Search and Rescue - TN Task Force 2

Emergency Support Unit

Emergency Management Council

The Emergency Operations Center functions with 8 levels of operational conditions.

Readiness levels
The first four levels are readiness levels and are used by OEM to gauge the severity of the threat to the city.

Operation Condition	Definition	Primary Action	Examples
OP-CON 1	Day-to-day	Monitor, routine resources requests	Barricades, debris, water main, traffic lights, power outage, etc…
OP-CON 2	Potential threat	Assessment initiated	Special weather statements
OP-CON 3	Likely threat	Notifications initiated, assessment continues	Severe weather watch, etc… Emergency conditions may develop
OP-CON 4	Imminent threat	Selected resources on standby Intensive assessment	Severe weather warning, etc… Emergency conditions developing
Response levels The second four levels are response levels. The type and severity of an event will determine the response and activation level.
Operation Condition	Definition	Primary Action	Examples
OP-CON 5	Limited emergency	Limited resource coordination	Minor Community Impact Damaging winds, minor snow storms
OP-CON 6	Significant emergency	Partial activation of the Emergency Operations Center Multi-department coordination	Isolated Community Impact
OP-CON 7	Major emergency	Full activation of the EOC Major response and recovery coordination	Substantial Community Impact Wide spread damaging storms
OP-CON 8	Catastrophic Emergency	State and Federal Response Plan Activated	Major Community Impact
The severity of an incident in this category of Operations Conditions will determine the level of the Emergency Operations Center activation.