NOUS41 KWBC 201146
PNSWSH
Technical
Implementation Notice 13-03
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
646 AM EST Wed
Feb 19 2013
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Richard J. Vogt
Director, WSR-88D Radar Operations
Center
Subject: More Frequent Products from 7 Additional FAA
Terminal Doppler Weather Radars
During Hazardous
Weather Effective February 27, 2013
Effective
February 27, 2013, at approximately 1500 Coordinated
Universal Time
(UTC), NWS will more frequent disseminate radar
products generated by the NWS Supplemental Product
Generator
(SPG) from 7
additional FAA Terminal Doppler Weather Radars
(TDWRs) during
the TDWR hazardous weather mode also known as
Volume
Coverage Pattern 80 (VCP 80).
These products will be
provided via the NWS Radar Product Central Data
Collection
Dissemination
Service (RPCCDS) and NOAAPort.
NWS initiated
more frequent radar product distribution from
11 TDWRs on April
12, 2012, (Reference TIN 12-13). The 7
TDWRs
added with this notice are listed below:
Associated
WFO TDWR ID TDWR FAA SITE NAME (ICAO)
-------------- -------
---------------------------
KOUN TOKC OKLAHOMA CITY (OKC)
KLWX TBWI BALTIMORE (BWI)
KLWX TDCA WASHINGTON NATIONAL (DCA)
KLWX TADW ANDREWS AFB MD (ADW)
KLWX TIAD DULLES (IAD)
KRAH TRDU RALEIGH (RDU)
KEAX TMCI KANSAS CITY (MCI)
As with other
centrally-collected TDWR-SPG products, the products
from these added sites will be archived at the
National Climatic
Data Center
(NCDC). The inventory of the archived products will
be contained along with other TDWR products
under the NEXRAD
Level III tab at:
http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pls/plhas/has.dsselect
More information
about how the NWS generates products from FAA’s
TDWR data can be
found at:
If you have any
questions about the technical content or
generation of these products, please contact:
Mike Istok
If you have
questions about the NOAAPort activation of these
products, please contact:
Brian Gockel
National
Technical Implementation Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm
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