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SPECIAL NCEP DISCUSSION
CENTRAL OPERATIONS/NCEP/NWS/WASHINGTON DC
2115 UTC TUE OCT 15 2002
152115Z...NCEP DEVELOPED NETWORK COMMS PROBLEMS WITH THE IBM BSP
AT 2000Z. WE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF SWITCHING OPS OVER TO THE
IBM ASP WHEN ASP COMMS WERE LOST AT 2110Z. NETWORK PERSONNEL ARE
CURRENTLY TROUBLESHOOTING THIS PROBLEM BUT NO IDEA AT THIS POINT
HOW LONG IT WILL BE BEFORE WE CAN GET NCEP PRODUCTION GOING AGAIN.
FSL BACKUP RSAS GUIDANCE FOR 20Z FAILED...EXCEPT FOR THE MMUS60KWBC
DATA WHICH WAS OK...AS WELL AS THE 20Z TOC RADAR CHART DUE TO
PROBLEMS GETTING DATA FROM GATEWAY. 20Z FSL RUC2 IS NOW RUNNING
BUT COULD ALSO FAIL. 18Z AFWA MM5 ETA BACKUP HAS BEEN INVOKED SINCE
THE NCEP 18Z ETA HAS ONLY PRODUCED OUTPUT TYO AROUND 24HRS...MM5
OUTPUT WILL OVERWITE ANY PREVIOUS 18Z ETA OUTPUT ON AWIPS. WILL
KEEP YOU POSTED...
FYI UPDATE...NCEP EXERCISE TESTING ITS BACKUP MODEL DISSEMINATION
SYSTEM HAS BEEN POSTPONED TENTATIVELY UNTIL THE 12Z MODEL CYCLE ON
0CT 24. INFO ON THE TYPE OF PRODUCTS AVBL FROM THE BACKUP PROCESSING
AND THEIR APPROXIMATE DELIVERY TIMES CAN BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING
WEB SITE...
http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/NCO/PMB/nwprod/osobackup/ncep_backup.html
LETTERS LOWER CASE EXCEPT NCO AND PMB MUST BE CAPITALIZED.
BUREK/SDM/NCO/NCEP
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