NOUS41 KWBC 102002
PNSWSH
Service Change Notice 11-10
National
Weather Service Headquarters
300 PM EST Thu Feb 10 2011
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Mike Szkil
Chief, NWS Awareness Branch
Subject: NWS
Watches/Warnings/Advisories in CAP and ATOM based
Formats
to Transition to Operational Status on
Internet
based feeds of NWS watch/warning/advisory products
using
the XML-based Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v1.1 and ATOM
message
formats will become operational on or about March 15,
This
announcement is a follow-up to the Public Information
Statement
entitled, Public Comments Solicited on Experimental
Common
Alerting Protocol Version 1.1 Messages, from
August
22, 2008.
The
previous announcement stated that CAP v1.1 was expected to
replace
existing NWS CAP v1.0 messages. Notice
was subsequently
placed
on
stating
that the replacement would occur gradually by March 15,
The
new date for replacement is March 15, 2011, coincident with
the
CAP v1.1 feeds becoming operational. At that
time, NWS CAP
v1.1
and ATOM messages will become available at
http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/
Users
targeting the CAP v1.0 and ATOM messages at
as
well as the CAP v1.1 messages and ATOM messages at
http://www.weather.gov/alerts-beta
will be
redirected to the operational CAP v1.1 and ATOM messages
at
the new location.
The
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the
adoption
of CAP v1.2 as the standard for emergency alerts in a
press
release on September 30, 2010. The press
release can be
found
at
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=52880
The
NWS is beginning work on CAP v1.2 and expects to offer an
experimental
CAP v1.2 feed of NWS alerts during the
Spring/Summer
of 2011.
For
more information about this information service, please see
the
Service Description Document for CAPv1.1final at
http://products.weather.gov/PDD/cap1.1final.pdf
For
questions about this information service, please contact:
Robert Bunge
Internet Dissemination Officer
or
Mike Gerber
Physical Scientist
National Service Change
Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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