[nws-changes] 20110120: Fire Wx-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:22:27 -0700

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Technical Implementation Notice 11-03
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
310 PM EST Thu Jan 20 2011

To:       Subscribers:
          - Family of Services
          - NOAA Weather Wire Service
          - Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
          - NOAAPORT
          Other NWS Partners and NWS employees

From:     Eli Jacks
          Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch

Subject:  Two Experimental Fire Weather Outlook Elements to be
          Added to the National Digital Forecast Database
          for CONUS Only Effective February 23, 2011

Effective Wednesday, February 23, 2011, at 1400 Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), two Fire Weather Outlook elements will be
added to the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) on an
experimental basis over the Conterminous United States (CONUS)
only.  These elements are generated by the National Centers for
Environmental Predictions (NCEP) Storm Prediction Center (SPC)
in Norman, OK.

These two Fire Weather Outlook elements will be added to the
NDFD CONUS sector and to the 16 pre-defined NDFD CONUS
subsectors for the valid times shown:

- Fire Weather Critical and Extremely Critical Areas (Days 1-7)
- Fire Weather Critical Areas for Dry Thunderstorms (Days 1-3)

More details regarding these new elements are available in the
Product Description Document (PDD) in the online catalog of
experimental NWS products and services.

http://products.weather.gov/detaile.php?selrow=416

With this implementation, these forecasts will be available from
NDFD in the standard methods:

- GRIdded Binary version 2 (GRIB2) files via Hypertext Transfer
  Protocol (HTTP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- eXtensible Markup Language (XML) via Simple Object Access
  Protocol (SOAP)
- Graphics via web browser

Users who pull NDFD elements in GRIB2 format, either via the
internet or via the Family of Services (FOS) server access
service, may need to update their procedures and/or scripts in
order to access these new elements.

For customers who key on the World Meteorological Organization
(WMO) super heading to access NDFD elements, the list of super
headings for these experimental elements is  online at:

http://www.weather.gov/datamgmt/doc/spc.html

Customers who use the NDFD in XML via web service or the online
graphical NDFD images can use the same methods they currently
use to acquire these new experimental elements.  The Fire
Weather Outlook NDFD graphics will be labeled experimental.

More information about accessing these new elements using all of
the standard NDFD access methods is available online at:

http://www.weather.gov/ndfd/spc_firewx.htm

Information on accessing and using NDFD elements is  online at:

http://ndfd.weather.gov/techincal.htm

If February 23, 2011, is declared a critical weather day, this
implementation may be postponed. In that case, users will be
notified of that decision via an updated Technical
Implementation Notice as far in advance as possible.

Comments and feedback on the experimental Fire Weather Outlook
NDFD elements will be accepted through June 3, 2011.  Links to
online surveys for NDFD customers are:

GRIB2 users:

http://www.weather.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=ndfd-grids

Users OF XML SOAP service:
http://www.weather.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=xmlsoap

NDFD online graphics:

http://www.weather.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=gfp

These new Fire Weather Outlook elements will remain experimental
until NWS assesses feedback and completes a technical analysis.
At that time, the NWS will determine whether to move these
experimental elements to operational status, discontinue them,
or revise and retain them as experimental elements.

For questions regarding these products, please contact:

  Dr. Phillip Bothwell
  Senior Development Meteorologist
  NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center
  Norman, Oklahoma
  Phillip.Bothwell@xxxxxxxx

For general questions regarding NDFD data, please email:

NWS.NDFD@xxxxxxxx

For technical questions regarding NDFD data, please contact:

  David Ruth
  Mesoscale Prediction Branch Chief
  NOAA/NWS Office of Science and Technology
  Silver Spring, Maryland
  David.Ruth@xxxxxxxx

For questions regarding this notice, please contact:

  Kevin Scharfenberg
  Severe Storms Services Coordinator
  NOAA/NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
  Norman, Oklahoma
  Kevin.Scharfenberg@xxxxxxxx

Technical Implementation Notices specifically related to NDFD
are online at:

http://www.weather.gov/ndfd/tins.htm

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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