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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 and 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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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 james.e.lee@noaa.gov jason.elliott@noaa.gov
National Service Change Notices are online
at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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