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Service Change Notice 10-38, Amended
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1005 AM Wed Dec 22 2010
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and employees
From: Eli Jacks
Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch
Subject: Amended to indicate a rolling software implementation
date for Preliminary Local Storm Report Weather Event
Types and Event Sources with completion scheduled for
June 30, 2010
Between December 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011, NWS Weather Forecast
Offices will add six new weather event types and two new event
sources to their Preliminary Local Storm Report (LSR) product.
Full implementation has been delayed to accommodate changes to
baseline AWIPS software as well as non-AWIPS LSR producing
software. The original Service Change Notice follows:
Effective Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at 1800 Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), all NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs)
will change their Preliminary Local Storm Report (LSR) product
to add six new weather event types and two new event sources.
The new weather event types are:
VOLCANIC ASHFALL
TSUNAMI
DEBRIS FLOW
COASTAL FLOOD
LAKESHORE FLOOD
SNEAKER WAVE
The new event sources are:
COCORAHS
911 CALL CENTER
Current weather event types and event sources are listed
in NWSI 10-517, Multi-Purpose Weather Products Specification,
Appendix B, available online at:
http://www.weather.gov/directives/sym/pd01005017curr.pdf
NWSI 10-517 will be updated with the new weather event types and
event sources during its next update.
No changes are being made to the WMO headers, AWIPS IDs or
format of the LSR product.
If you have any questions, please contact:
John Ferree
NWS Severe Storms Services
120 David L. Boren Blvd.
Norman, OK 73072
John.T.Ferree@xxxxxxxx
405-325-2209
National Service Change Notices are available online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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