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Service Change Notice 12-45

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

245 PM EST Mon Dec 19 2012

 

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 Prediction Center

 

SUBJECT: Change to Issuance Times of HPC Day 3-7 Products, 

         CONUS Only Effective December 18, 2012

 

Effective Tuesday, December 18, 2012, after 0001 Coordinated

Universal Time (UTC), the National Centers for Environmental

Prediction’s (NCEP) Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC)

will begin issuing Day 3-7 products on a modified schedule as

shown below:

 

Table 1

 

Product                    New Issuance            Old Issuance

                           Time (UTC)              Time (UTC)

-------                    ------------            ------------

CONUS Grids                0400                     1430

                           1430                     1800

 

Graphical Surface Progs    0400                     0900

                           1900                     1900

 

Discussions                0700                     1400

                           1900                     1930

 

These changes are being made to provide a complete guidance

package at night to complement the daytime issuance. The products

are available online at:

 

    http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/medr/medr.shtml

 

There will be no changes to the issuance times of the Alaska

grids and progs.

 

For more information, please contact:

 

    edwin.danaher@noaa.gov

    301-683-1494

 

National Service Change Notices are online at:

 

    http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

 

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