NOUS41 KWBC
191943
PNSWSH
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:
301-683-1494
National Service
Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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