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NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION MESSAGE 95-09
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
200 PM EST THU FEB 16 1995
TO: ALL USERS OF MILITARY DATA THROUGH THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATION GATEWAY
FROM: FRED ZBAR, ACTING CHIEF, SERVICES DEVELOPMENT BRANCH
SUBJECT: PLANNED 10-HOUR OUTAGE ON FEBRUARY 19, 1995 BETWEEN
MILITARY WEATHER ACQUISITION/DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
AND NWS TELECOMMUNICATION GATEWAY
There will be a planned outage of the NWS Telecommunication
Gateway - Military Weather Acquisition/Distribution System
(Automated Weather Network [AWN]) interface from 1300 - 2300 UTC
(0800 - 1800 EST) on February 19, 1995. A backup connection will
be maintained during the outage. Therefore, the outage should be
transparent to users.
Some differences will be noted in the format of the data, most
particularly, the record separator will not be found preceding
individual surface and upper air observations and terminal
forecasts within collectives generated by the AWN.
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