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PNSWSH
Service Change
Notice 13-17
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
316 PM EST Thu
Feb 28 2013
To: - Tsunami Warning Focal Points
- Tsunami National Contacts of the
UNESCO/IOC Indian
Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation
System (IOTWS)
- Other International Recipients of
Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center products for
the IOTWS
- Family of Services
- NOAA Weather Wire Service
- Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
- NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Andrew Stern
Acting Chief, Meteorological Services
Division
Subject: Termination of Interim Advisory Service for
Tsunamis by
the Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center to Countries on the
Indian Ocean, effective March 31,
2013
Effective March
31, 2013, at 0000 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), the
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center will terminate the
Interim Advisory
Service for tsunamis provided to Indian Ocean
countries since 2005 following the December 26, 2004,
Indian
Ocean
tsunami.
This action was
requested by the Intergovernmental Coordination
Group for the
IOTWS in recognition of the fact that this service
can now be provided from Regional Tsunami
Service Providers
within the region: Australia, India and
Indonesia. This request
was received via a letter dated January 18,
2013, from the
Executive
Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission
to the NWS Acting Assistant Administrator.
The following two
products are to be terminated:
Tsunami
Product WMO
Heading AWIPS ID
Tsunami
Watch WEIO21
PHEB TSUIOX
Tsunami
Information Bulletin WEIO23
PHEB TIBIOX
Tsunami products
for the Indian Ocean can now be found on the
following web pages:
Australia: www.bom.gov.au/tsunami
India: www.tsunami.incois.gov.in
Indonesia: http://inatews.bmkg.go.id/new/
For more
information or comments on this change, please contact:
Charles McCreery
NOAA/NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
91-270 Fort Weaver Road
Ewa Beach,
Hawaii 96822
808-689-8207
National Service
Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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