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Service Change Notice 12-30

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

142 PM EDT Wed Sep 5 2012

TO: Subscribers:

- Family of Services

- NOAA Weather Wire Service

- Emergency Managers Weather Information Network

- NOAAPORT

Other NWS partners and NWS employees

FROM: Jason Tuell

Acting Director

Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services

SUBJECT: Discontinuation of Space Weather Advisory Bulletin

Effective October 5, 2012

Effective Friday, October 5, 2012, at 9:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time (MDT), 1500 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado, will discontinue the Space Weather Advisory Bulletin.

Developed many years ago, the Space Weather Advisory Bulletin was designed to provide space weather information at a level appropriate for a general audience. Recently, however, SWPC added equivalent general audience text to its alert, warning, and watch products, tailored specifically for each category and type of space weather event. For this reason, the advisory bulletin is no longer needed.

SWPC alerts, warnings, and watches are online at:

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/index.html.

To subscribe to these via email, please see:

https://pss.swpc.noaa.gov/LoginWebForm.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fproductsubscriptionservice%2f.

Finally, additional notification and supplementary information is online in the "Top News of the Day" section at:

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html

The SWPC product below will be affected by this change:

AWIPS WMO Header Product Change

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SWXADVBUL NWXX05 KWNP Space Weather Discontinued

Advisory Bulletin