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FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1644 APRIL 11... 2000
ATTENTION FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS
NOAAPORT USERS
SUBJECT AWIPS COMMISSIONING NOTICE...
ON APRIL 4... 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE /NWS/ REACHED
A NEW MILESTONE WITH THE COMMISSIONING OF AWIPS AT
CARIBOU WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE /KCAR/... CARIBOU... ME
BURLINGTON WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE /KBTV/... BURLINGTON... VT
ON APRIL 6... 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE /NWS/ REACHED
A NEW MILESTONE WITH THE COMMISSIONING OF AWIPS AT
FLAGSTAFF WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE /KFGZ/... FLAGSTAFF... AZ
BOISE WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE /KBOI/... BOISE... ID
THESE COMMISSIONINGS BRING THE TOTAL TO 39
COMMISSIONING OF THESE SITES MEAN AWIPS NOW TRANSMITS ALL
NWS PRODUCTS INSTEAD OF AFOS... TRANSMISSION OVER AFOS
CEASES UPON THE COMMISSIONING OF AWIPS.
THE NWS OFFICE RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH SITE... AS WELL AS THE
NETWORK CONTROL FACILITY IN SILVER SPRING... MARYLAND... WILL
MONITOR AWIPS PRODUCTS AND COORDINATE MAINTENANCE
ACTIONS AS NEEDED.
FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING FUTURE AWIPS COMMISSIONINGS...
REFER TO THE AWIPS COMMISSIONING HOMEPAGE
WWW.AWIPS/UNDERSCORE/COMMISSIONING.NWS.NOAA.GOV
NOTE THIS MESSAGE IS ALSO POSTED TO THE SOC CHANGE NOTICES
WEB PAGE AT THE FOLLOWING URL
HTTP //WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/OSO/NOTICES/NOTICES.SHTML.
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