NOUS41 KWBC 261621
PNSWSH
Service Change
Notice 13-15
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
1122 AM EST Tue
Feb 26 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: Initiation of Additional DOD WSR-88D Level II
Data
Streams Beginning
March 2013
This notice
provides an update of NWS plans to initiate
electronic collection, distribution and archive of
Weather
Surveillance
Radar-1988, Doppler (WSR-88D) Level II data at
eight additional DOD WSR-88Ds listed below.
ICAO SITE NAME STATE
---- --------- -----
KPOE Fort Polk Louisiana
KVBX Vandenberg AFB California
KEYX Edwards AFB California
KMXX Maxwell AFB Alabama
KHPX Fort Campbell Kentucky
KMBX Minot AFB North Dakota
KVAX Moody AFB Georgia
KEOX Fort Rucker Alabama
The Level II Data
transmitted from these sites will be Super
Resolution and
include dual polarization Level II data.
Activation of
Level II data collection is expected to begin at
some of these sites in March 2013, but definitive
activation
dates cannot be given at this time. The activation at each site
will depend on installation of the WSR-88D dual
polarization
modification, Radar Product Generator software Build
13.1, and
OPSnet communication hardware at the associated NWS
Weather
Forecast Offices.
To determine the
availability of Level 2 data from these 8 DOD
WSR-88Ds, check the NWS Level 2 Status Website:
http://weather.noaa.gov/monitor/radar2/
For comments or
questions regarding these changes contact:
Mike Istok
NWS Headquarters, Office of Science and
Technology
or
Christina Horvat
WSR-88D Radar Operations Center
National Service
Change Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm
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