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Service Change Notice 13-15
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1122 AM EST Tue Feb 26 2013
TO:Subscribers
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS Employees
FROM:Richard J. Vogt
Director, WSR-88D Radar Operations Center
SUBJECT:Initiation of Additional DOD WSR-88D Level II Data Streams
Beginning March 2013
This notice provides an update of NWS plans to initiate
electroniccollection, distribution and archive of Weather
Surveillance Radar-1988, Doppler (WSR-88D) Level II data
ateightadditional DOD WSR-88Ds listed below.
ICAOSITE NAMESTATE
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KPOEFort PolkLouisiana
KVBXVandenberg AFBCalifornia
KEYXEdwards AFBCalifornia
KMXXMaxwell AFBAlabama
KHPXFort CampbellKentucky
KMBXMinot AFBNorth Dakota
KVAXMoody AFBGeorgia
KEOXFort RuckerAlabama
The Level II Data transmitted from these sites will be Super Resolution
and include dual polarization Level II data.
Activation of Level II data collection is expected to begin at someof
these sites in March 2013, but definitive activation datescannot be
given at this time.The activation at each site willdepend on
installation of the WSR-88D dual polarization modification, Radar
Product Generator software Build 13.1, and OPSnetcommunication hardware
at the associated NWS Weather Forecast Offices.
To determine the availability of Level 2 data from these 8 DOD WSR-88Ds,
check the NWS Level 2 Status Website:
http://weather.noaa.gov/monitor/radar2/
For comments or questions regarding these changes contact:
Mike Istok
NWS Headquarters, Office of Science and Technology
Michael.Istok@xxxxxxxx <mailto:Michael.Istok@xxxxxxxx>
or
Christina Horvat
WSR-88D Radar Operations Center
Christina.A.Horvat@xxxxxxxx <mailto:Christina.A.Horvat@xxxxxxxx>
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm
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