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PNSWSH
Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1250 PM EST Tue Jan 4 2011
TO: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
-Other NWS Partners, Users, and Employees
FROM: Eli Jacks
Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch
SUBJECT: Currently soliciting comments by April 15, 2011 on
experimental use of an Extreme Cold Warning product
Beginning January 10, 2011, and continuing through April 15,
2011, select NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) will issue an
Extreme Cold (EC) Warning product on an experimental basis.
Comments should be submitted at the following web address:
http://www.weather.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=ecw
On occasion temperatures may fall to well below zero readings
with no wind occurring. Currently the only way to headline very
cold temperatures is with the use of Wind Chill Advisory or
Warning products. The experimental EC warning product will be
issued in the rare situations where air temperatures fall to
dangerous levels as identified by wind chill criteria but there
is little to no wind occurring.
EC warnings will be issued as Non Precipitation Weather (NPW)
products and will use NWS Valid Time Event Code (VTEC) EC.W for
dissemination. The WFOs that will be participating in this
experiment and product identifiers are shown in Table 1.
Table 1.
WFO WMO HEADING AWIPS ID
Rapid City, SD WWUS73 KUNR NPWUNR
Aberdeen, SD WWUS73 KABR NPWABR
Sioux Falls, SD WWUS73 KFSD NPWFSD
Bismarck, ND WWUS73 KBIS NPWBIS
Eastern ND/Grand Forks, ND WWUS73 KFGF NPWFGF
Minneapolis, MN WWUS73 KMPX NPWMPX
Duluth, MN WWUS73 KDLH NPWDLH
Little Rock, AR WWUS73 KLZK NPWLZK
A Product Description Document (PDD) for this experimental
product is online at:
http://products.weather.gov/viewliste.php
After the experimental period and the close of the comment
period, NWS will evaluate all comments to determine whether to
proceed with national implementation of the EC warning product.
For comments or questions regarding this PNS, please contact:
Jim Keeney
7220 NW 101St Terrace Building
Routing Code: W/CR1
Kansas City, MO 64153-2371
Phone: 816-268-3141
jim.keeney@xxxxxxxx
or
Paul Stokols
National Weather Service
Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services
1325 East West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-713-1867 x-139
paul.stokols@xxxxxxxx
National Public Information Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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