NOUS41 KWBC
021912 AAA
PNSWSH
Technical
Implementation Notice 12-06, Amended
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
210 PM EST Fri
Mar 3 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners, Users and
Employees
From: Tim McClung
Chief, Science Plans Branch
Office of Science and Technology
Subject: Amended: Additions, Deletions, Changes to NAM
and RUC
(RAP) BUFR Stations and Additional
and Removed Stations
in NCEP NAM Soundings Collectives on
NOAAPORT:
Effective March 20, 2012
Amended to
reschedule this implementation for March 20, 2012 to
coincide with the
Rapid Refresh implementation.
Effective March
20, 2012, beginning with the 1200 Coordinated
Universal Time
(UTC) model distribution, the National Centers for
Environmental
Prediction (NCEP) will modify the list of stations
for which BUFR
data are generated for both the North American
Mesoscale (NAM)
and Rapid Refresh (RAP) models. The changes will
also modify the
lists of stations in the North American Mesoscale
(NAM) model BUFR
sounding collectives disseminated on NOAAPORT.
For the NAM and
RAP lists, the new stations are listed in Table
1. The stations
being removed are listed in Table 2. This change
corresponds with
the implementation of the Rapid Refresh (RAP) to
replace the Rapid
Update Cycle (RUC).
The NAM and RUC
have always used the same station list, but many
of the stations
fall outside of the RUC domain and are not used
by the model. The
larger RAP domain will allow data for many more
of the NAM
stations to be used in the RAP output.
The lists below
do not cover existing stations in the list that
are outside of
the RUC domain but inside the RAP domain. It deals
only with actual
changes to the list itself. Also note that the
NAM nests use the
same station list as the parent 12 km NAM, so
any changes to
the list involving locations within a particular
nest impact that
nest’s BUFR output as well.
Table 1. New stations in the NAM and RAP BUFR
lists. The
numerical and
character identifications are provided:
000228 SWY
Spanaway WA
000229 WPT
Westport WA
000230 LUT
Near Lutsen MN
000231 PWN
Near Port Wing WI
000232 SDP
Near Sand Point AK
000233 KISO
Kinston NC
000234 KMVL
Morrisville-Stowe Apt VT
000235 KGKL
Meadville PA
000236 K48I
Sutton WV
000237 KGXA
Gray Butte Field CA
000238 EMF
El Mirage Field CA
000239 ISQ
Manistique MI
000240 P53
Munising MI
000241 K3LF
Litchfield IL
000270 CFC
Colfax Water CA
000271 MPI
Mariposa CA
000273 NXD
New Exchequer Dam CA
000274 PFD
Pine Flat Dam CA
000275 TPK
Three Peaks CA
000276 RVD
Ravensdale WA
000277 SHS
Sacramento ARO Site CA
000278 TNF
Tahoe National Forest CA
000279 STA
Shasta Dam CA
000293 CCR
Concord CA
098009 KEMP Emporia
KS
722593 KMHV
Mojave CA
724456 VIH
Rolla/Vichy Airport MO
723065 KPGV
Greenville NC
723069 KOAJ
Jacksonville NC
724580 KCNK
Concordia/Blosser KS
725116 KLNS
Lancaster PA
726134 KHIE
Whitefield NH
726385 KMBL
Manistee MI
727883 KELN
Ellensburg/Bowers WA
747900 KSSC
Shaw AFB/Sumter SC
Table 2. Stations
being removed from the NAM and RAP BUFR lists.
The numerical and
character identifications are provided:
000620 C20
Canada/Great Lakes
000621 C21
Canada/Great Lakes
072434 STL
St. Louis MO
The following
changes are being made to the station lists:
- Station 000020
(nr. Watertown, SD) is moved from 44.80
N,
96.70 W TO 45.80 N, 97.45 W and will now be
known as (Marshall
County RAWS).
The character identification is changed from WTT
to MRLS.
- Station 727790
(KGPI) now represents Glacier Park Intl instead
of Kalispell/Glacier. There is no change to the numerical or
character identification.
- Station 000057
(Lewis Range of Rockies, MT) is moved from 48.00
N, 113.00 W to 48.32N, 113.35 W and will now
be known as Marias
Pass, MT.
The character identification is changed from LRR
TO MRP.
- Station 000617
(Northern Rockies, MT) is moved from 46.00 N,
114.00 W to 46.25 N, 114.15 W and will now be
known as Hamilton
MT.
The character identification is changed from C17 to HMM.
The changes to
the BUFR station lists will result in no changes
to the WMO
headers of the NOAAPORT soundings collectives. The
headers listed in
Table 3, below, are used today and these
headers will
continue to be used. There will also be
no change
to the BUFR
format of the products except that new stations will
be included in
the collectives. The new stations as
well as
those being
eliminated appear in Table 4, below.
Table 3. WMO communication identifiers for the NAM
BUFR
collectives:
JUSA41 KWNO
JUSA42 KWNO
JUSB43 KWNO
JUSB44 KWNO
JUSB45 KWNO
JUSB46 KWNO
JUSX49 KWNO
Table 4. Additions/deletions to NAM BUFR sounding
collectives:
Collective 1
(JUSA41):
ADDED:
STATION STATION
NUMBER ID
STATION NAME
000233 KISO
Kinston, NC
722235 KBFM
Mobile Downtown (ASOS), AL
723065 KPGV
Greenville, NC
723069 KOAJ
Jacksonville, NC
724456 VIH
Rolla/Vichy Airport, MO
747900 KSSC
Shaw AFB/Sumter, SC
DELETED:
072434 STL
St. Louis, MO
Note that station
722235 is already generated in NAM/RAP BUFR
output. The station had been mistakenly omitted from
the
collectives, and
this is now corrected.
Collective 2
(JUSA42):
ADDED:
STATION STATION
NUMBER ID
STATION NAME
000234 KMVL
Morrisville-Stowe Apt, VT
000235 KGKL
Meadville, PA
000236 K48I
Sutton, WV
000239 ISQ
Manistique, MI
000240 P53
Munising, MI
000241 K3LF
Litchfield, IL
725116 KLNS
Lancaster, PA
726134 KHIE
Whitefield, NH
726385 KMBL
Manistee, MI
DELETED:
NONE
Collective 3
(JUSB43):
ADDED:
NONE
DELETED:
NONE
Collective 4
(JUSB44):
ADDED:
STATION STATION
NUMBER ID
STATION NAME
000230 LUT
Near Lutsen, MN
000231 PWN
Near Port Wing, WI
098009 KEMP
Emporia, KS
724580 KCNK
Concordia/Blosser, KS
DELETED
000620 C20
Canada/Great Lakes
000621 C21
Canada/Great Lakes
Collective 5
(JUSB45):
ADDED:
STATION STATION
NUMBER ID
STATION NAME
000237 KGXA
Gray Butte Field, CA
000238 EMF
El Mirage Field, CA
000270 CFC
Colfax Water, CA
000271 MPI
Mariposa, CA
000273 NXD
New Exchequer Dam, CA
000274 PFD
Pine Flat Dam, CA
000275 TPK
Three Peaks, CA
000277 SHS
Sacramento ARO Site, CA
000278 TNF
Tahoe National Forest, CA
000279 STA
Shasta Dam, CA
000293 CCR
Concord, CA
DELETED:
NONE
Collective 6
(JUSB46):
ADDED:
STATION STATION
NUMBER ID
STATION NAME
000228 SWY
Spanaway, WA
000229 WPT
Westport, WA
000276 RVD
Ravensdale, WA
722593 KMHV
Mojave, CA
727883 KELN
Ellensburg/Bowers, WA
DELETED:
NONE
Collective 9
(JUSX49):
ADDED:
STATION STATION
NUMBER ID
STATION NAME
000232 SDP
Near Sand Point, AK
DELETED:
NONE
If you have any
questions concerning these changes, please
Contact:
Geoff Manikin
NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center
Camp Springs, Maryland 20746
301-763-8000 X 7263
geoffrey.manikin@noaa.gov
If you have
questions about the NOAAPORT activation of these
products, please
contact:
Brian Gockel
NWS/Office of Science and Technology
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
301-713-0304 X 158
brian.gockel@noaa.gov
This and other
NWS technical implementation notices are available
online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm
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