*Details of the Outage:
*
The Air Force Weather Agency will conduct an equipment upgrade on 23 Sep
2008
from 1645Z-2300Z which will adversely impact your operations during this
period.
*Data Affected by the Outage:
*The Air Force Weather Agency will suspend most production capabilities
from
1645Z to 2300Z on 3 Sep 2008 to facilitate equipment upgrades.
This action will impact war fighter support in the following areas:
LEADS and N-TFS
will not receive data, TAWS will be degraded as maps and files will not
update, PADS
will not be available, JAAWIN-Unclassified to include observation
upload,no data will
be routed to external agencies (e.g., OWSs, WFs, FNMOC, NOAA, AFTAC, DTRA)
and AFWA will be unable to ingest data from external sources.
METSAT data will not be updated nor disseminated.Space weather products
will
not be created nor disseminated. Alphanumeric data such as
observations and
forecasts will queue during the outage and be ingested when systems are
returned to service.
JAAWIN-S and JAAWIN-SCI will operate in a degraded state as data and
products passed from unclassified sources will not be updated.
The 18Z WRF run will be available on JAAWIN-S.
Following the outage, there will be a period of degraded operations
to repopulate AFWA databases.
WILLIAM E. WOOD, Capt, USAF
Chief, Operations Requirements
HQ AFWA, 2 WXG/DOR
Offutt AFB, NE 68113
DSN 271-0690
Comm (402) 294-0690
SIPR: william.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:william.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Length of the Outage:
*09/23/2008 1645 UTC /12:45 EDT until 2300Z/7:PM EDT
* *
*Contact Point for Questions:
*ESPC Operations OCL (Operations Crew Leader), 301-817-3880