[awips2-users] 20220324: heads-up on upcoming removal of NEXRAD Level III products

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• Subject: [awips2-users] 20220324: heads-up on upcoming removal of NEXRAD Level III products
• From: Unidata User Support <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:23:20 -0600

Users of NEXRAD Level III products:

This is an informational heads-up on the upcoming removal of a number of
NEXRAD Level III products from the NOAAPort SBN and the IDD.  (Recall that
all NEXRAD Level III products relayed in the IDD come from NOAAPort.)

Service Change Notice (SCN) 21-96 listed a number of NEXRAD Level
III products that were to be removed from NOAAPort around the end of
February, 2022.  Instead of these products actually being removed, the
TTAAII portion of their WMO IDs (which are included in the LDM/IDD Product
IDs) were changed to SDUS6n.  We received unofficial word this morning
that all SDUS6n products will be removed from NOAAPort sometime in early
May.  A new Service Change Notice is in the process of being prepared,
and its issuance will represent official notice of the products removal.

Here is a comparison of the products to be removed listed in SCN 21-96
and the SDUS6n ones that are currently being sent in NOAAPort and relayed
in the NEXRAD3 feed in the IDD:

SCN 21-96  TTAAII SDUS6.
Products   currently in NOAAPort
----------+-------------
   DOD        DOD
   DSD        DSD
              N0F
              N1F
              N2F
              N3F
              NAF
              NBF
              NXF
              NYF
              NZF
              N3P
   N0Q        N0Q
   N1Q        N1Q
   N2Q        N2Q
   N3Q        N3Q
   NAQ        NAQ
   NBQ        NBQ
   NXQ        NXQ
   NYQ        NYQ
   NZQ        NZQ
   N0U        N0U
   N1U        N1U
   NAU        NAU
   NXU        NXU
   NYU        NYU
   NZU        NZU
   N1S        N1S
   N2S        N2S
   N3S        N3S
              NCZ
   NET        NET
              NHI
              NHL
              NLA
              NML
              NSS
              NSW
              NTV
   RCM        RCM
   RSL
              SPD

This comparison shows that there are 19 more products that are currently
being distributed in NOAAPort that were not included in the SCN 21-96
list of products to be removed.  We have been assured that all of these
products will be removed in early May.

Again, this is an unofficial heads-up intended to alert users of products
that will be no longer available via NOAAPort or the IDD.

Please send any/all questions/comments to:

support-datastream@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Best regards,

Unidata User Support
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