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Service Change Notice 12-12
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1150 AM EDT Mon Mar 19 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees
From: Thomas Graziano
Chief, Hydrologic Services Division
Eli Jacks
Chief, Fire& Public Weather Services Branch
Subject: Changes to the Regional Temperature and Precipitation
(RTP) product and re-establishment of the Daily
Hydrometeorological Data Summary (HYD) product at the
Baltimore/Washington Weather Forecast Office WFO
Effective June 5, 2012, at 1200 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), the Baltimore/Washington (LWX) Weather Forecast Office
(WFO) will change the issuance times and content RTP product.
The RTP will contain data from automated stations such as the
Automated Surface Observing System and the Automated Weather
Observing System and will be issued twice daily around 0030 UTC
and 1230 UTC.
Other observational data, including 24-hour data from
cooperative observation (COOP) stations currently being sent in
the RTP product, will be transmitted in the Daily HYD product.
The HYD will be issued once per day around 10:00 AM local
standard time.
Products affected:
WMO HEADER AWIPS ID OLD ISSUANCE TIME NEW ISSUANCE TIME
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ASUS61 KLWX RTPLWX 1400 UTC 0030 and 1230 UTC
SXUS51 KLWX HYDLWX not issued 10:00 AM LST
Samples of the new product formats are available at:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/observationdata.htm
For questions or comments about this change, please contact:
James E. Lee Jason Elliott
Meteorologist-in-Charge Senior Service Hydrologist
Baltimore/Washington WFO Baltimore/Washington WFO
43858 Weather Service Rd. 43858 Weather Service Rd.
Sterling VA 20166 Sterling VA 20166
703-996-2222 703-996-2234
james.e.lee@xxxxxxxx jason.elliott@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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