Subj : Public Info Statement
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat May 11 2019 11:37 am
Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
745 AM CDT Fri May 10 2019
To: Subscribers:
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPort
Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees
From: Allison Allen
Chief, Marine, Tropical and Tsunami Services Branch
Subject: National Tropical Cyclone Watch Warning Product
(TCV) Product Collaboration Tests
The National Hurricane Center (NHC), the Ocean Prediction Center
(OPC), the Weather Prediction Center (WPC), and National Weather
Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in the NWS Southern
Region and in the NWS Eastern Region, will commence with internal
software and hardware testing of the national tropical cyclone
watch/warning (TCV) product collaboration process for the Atlantic
basin on Monday, May 13 and continue daily through Thursday, May
16, 2019.
Internal testing will begin at approximately 1400 GMT and
terminate at 1900 GMT daily during scheduled test days. In the
event of inclement weather, Friday, May 17, 2018 has been
reserved to serve as backup date for any portion of testing that
was delayed.
Internal TCV test products are not intended to be released
externally through NWS dissemination and communication systems.
The text products affected by collaboration testing are the
National Tropical Cyclone Watch/Warning (TCV) products issued
under the following AWIPS Product Identifiers (PIL) and World
Meteorological Organization (WFO) Identifiers (ID):
TCV Product AWIPS PIL WMO ID
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Preliminary TCV PTCAT/1-5/ WTNT/81-85/ KNHC
National TCV TCVAT/1-5/ WTNT/81-85/ KNHC
In addition, the following National Digital Forecast Database NDFD)
elements will be created for this test:
- tropical cyclone wind probabilities (incremental and
cumulative) for 34 kt, 50 kt, and 64 kt
- hazard grid (including tropical storm, hurricane, and
storm surge hazards)
Periodic NHC and WFO internal software and hardware testing will
continue during the remainder of 2019. The national TCV product
for the Atlantic basin will contain a summary of NHC/WFO
collaborated wind and/or storm surge watches and warnings,
depicted by NWS-defined geographic zones.
NWS WFOs participating in the national TCV product collaboration
tests are listed below by NWS Region:
NWS Southern Region
Atlanta, GA (FFC)
Austin-San Antonio, TX (EWX)
Birmingham, AL (BMX)
Brownsville, TX (BRO)
Corpus Christi, TX (CRP)
Fort Worth, TX (FWD)
Houston, TX (HGX)
Jackson, MS (JAN)
Jacksonville, FL (JAX)
Key West, FL (KEY)
Lake Charles, LA (LCH)
Little Rock, AR (LZK)
Melbourne, FL (MLB)
Miami, FL (MFL)
Mobile, AL (MOB)
Morristown, TN (MRX)
New Orleans, LA (LIX)
San Juan, PR (SJU)
Shreveport, LA (SHV)
Tallahassee, FL (TAE)
Tampa Bay Area, FL (TBW)
NWS Eastern Region
Albany, NY (ALY)
Boston, MA (BOX)
Caribou, ME (CAR)
Charleston, SC (CHS)
Gray/Portland, ME (GYX)
Mount Holly, NJ (PHI)
Newport/Morehead City, NC (MHX)
New York, NY (OKX)
Sterling, VA (LWX)
Wakefield, VA (AKQ)
Wilmington, NC (ILM)
Columbia, SC (CAE)
Greenville-Spartanburg, SC (GSP)
Raleigh-Durham, NC (RAH)
Blacksburg/Roanoke, VA (RNK)
For more information, please contact:
Chris Buonanno
Science and Operations Officer
National Weather Service Office
North Little Rock, AR, 72118
[email protected]
501-834-0308
National Public Information Statements are online at:
https://www.weather.gov/notification/
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