NOUS41 KWBC
092039 Amended
PNSWSH
Public
Information Notice
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
340 PM EST Fri
Nov 9 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information
Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners, Users and
Employees
From: Kolly Mars
Chief, NWS Internet Dissemination
System
Subject: GovDelivery Dissemination of NWS Alerts by
email/SMS
SCN 12-43 issued
on November 8, 2012, indicated that effective
November 8, 2012,
NWS is discontinuing the weather alert services
associated with the mass email/SMS service provided
under NWS
contract with GovDelivery. This service had been
provided by free
subscription on
The National
Weather Service contract with EFIIA Consulting, LLC
(GovDelivery
service) is scheduled to terminate effective
November 13,
2012. While the service provided by GovDelivery
under the contract has met all government
requirements, current
fiscal challenges require the NWS to review
dissemination methods
to ensure the most efficient means are used to
provide the public
with essential services.
It is our
understanding that GovDelivery, Inc. intends to
continue an equivalent service and enable additional
subscriptions through their company Website at:
GovDelivery
intends to send current subscribers a message that
will provide subscribers an opportunity to
re-subscribe to the
new service.
A small number of
subscribers who were recipients of non-publicly
available messages will receive a separate
notification from the
NWS provider of
this information regarding the delivery status of
these messages.
The NWS will
continue to provide alert and warning information in
standard formats (such as RSS, XML, REST, and CAP),
which are
available to all users, including commercial providers
who wish
to develop comparable alerting services. A sample listing of
existing services providing email/SMS alerts for
weather events,
is available at:
Official
dissemination sources including NOAA Weather Radio, NOAA
Weather Wire
Service, and
will continue to be available to the public, and
the iNWS service
for emergency managers and other core partners
will also
continue.
For more
information please contact:
Mark Paese
Director, Office of Operational Systems
1325 East West Hwy
Silver Spring, MD 20910
National Service
Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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