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Service Change Notice 11-13
National Weather Service Headquarters
Washington DC
415 PM EDT Fri Feb 25 2011
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information
Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS employees
From: James E. Hoke
Director
Hydrometeorological
Subject: Transition of NCEP HPC Probabilistic Quantitative
Precipitation Forecasts From Experimental to
Operational Effective April 5, 2011
Effective April 5, 2011, the National Centers for Environmental
Prediction’s (NCEP) Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) will begin
issuing probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasts (PQPFs)
over the continental U.S. in 6 hour increments out to 3 days. The PQPF
forecasts provide information in two different forms: probabilities of
exceeding a threshold and levels of precipitation amount associated with a
given percentile in the distribution.
The PQPF products are
available online at:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pqpf_6hr/conus_hpc_pqpf_6hr.php
If you have questions
or feedback, please contact:
Ed
Danaher
Chief, HPC
Development and Training Branch
Camp Springs, MD
20746
(301)
763-8000, ext. 7354
National Service Change Notices are
online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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