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Service Change Notice 12-37
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
738 AM EDT Wed Oct 31 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees
From: Steven W. Mendenhall
MIC, WFO San Joaquin Valley
Subject: Changes to the Regional Temperature and Precipitation
(RTP) Product from Weather Forecast Office
(WFO) San Joaquin Valley, Hanford, CA, Effective
December 4, 2012
Effective December 4, 2012 at 1200 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), WFO San Joaquin Valley (HNX) will change the issuance
times and content of its RTP product. The RTP will contain data
from automated stations such as the Automated Surface Observing
System, the Automated Weather Observing System, and manual
stations such as the Cooperative Weather Observer Network, and
will be issued three times daily.
This adjustment will provide more robust data to local, regional,
and national customers. The order of individual stations will be
adjusted to better reflect data sources. The new RTP issuance
times are listed below.
Product affected:
WMO HEADER AWIPS ID OLD ISSUANCE TIME NEW ISSUANCE TIME
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ASUS66 KHNX RTPHNX 0000, 0600, 1200, 0030, 1230,
and 1800 UTC and 1700 UTC
A sample of the product format is available at:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/hnx/current/newRTP.php
For questions or comments about this change, please contact:
Steven W. Mendenhall
Meteorologist-in-Charge
WFO San Joaquin Valley
900 Foggy Bottom Rd.
Hanford CA 93230
(559) 584-3752
steven.mendenhall@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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