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-------- Original Message -------- 322 NOUS41 KWBC 272015 PNSWSH Service Change Notice 11-34 National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC 415 PM EDT Tue Sep 27 2011 TO: Subscribers: - Family of Services - NOAA Weather Wire Service - Emergency Managers Weather Information Network - NOAAPORT Other NWS partners and NWS employees FROM: Cynthia Abelman Chief, Aviation Services Branch SUBJECT: Implementation of Improved Space Weather Watch, Warning and Alert Products Effective December 19, 2011 Effective Monday, December 19, 2011, at 1000 AM Mountain Standard Time (MST), 1700 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado, will disseminate enhanced space weather watch, warning and alert products. These products will have an additional section of information appended. This new section will list potential impacts at earth as well as expected geographical locations of the impacts for various space weather events. The following SWPC products will be affected by this change: AWIPS ID WMO Header Product Name NOAA Scale SWXALTXMF WOXX01 KWNP ALERT: X-ray Flux exceeded M5 R2-R5 SWXSUMXM5 WOXX01 KWNP SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded M5 R2 SWXSUMX01 WOXX02 KWNP SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 R3 SWXSUMX10 WOXX02 KWNP SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X10 R4 SWXSUMX20 WOXX02 KWNP SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X20 R5 SWXWATA20 WOXX20 KWNP WATCH: Geomagnetic A-index 20 G1 or greater predicted SWXWATA30 WOXX21 KWNP WATCH: Geomagnetic A-index 30 G2 or greater predicted SWXWATA50 WOXX22 KWNP WATCH: Geomagnetic A-index 50 G3 or greater predicted SWXWATA99 WOXX23 KWNP WATCH: Geomagnetic A-index 100 G4-G5 or greater predicted SWXWARK04 WOXX13 KWNP WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected SWXWARK05 WOXX11 KWNP WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of G1 5 expected SWXWARK06 WOXX12 KWNP WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of G2 6 expected SWXWARK07 WOXX14 KWNP WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of G3-G5 7 or greater expected SWXALTK04 WOXX13 KWNP ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 SWXALTK05 WOXX11 KWNP ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 G1 SWXALTK06 WOXX12 KWNP ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 6 G2 SWXALTK07 WOXX14 KWNP ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7 G3 SWXALTK08 WOXX15 KWNP ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 8 G4 SWXALTK09 WOXX16 KWNP ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 9 G5 SWXWARPX1 WOXX32 KWNP WARNING: Proton 10MeV Integral S1-S5 Flux above 10pfu expected SWXALTPX1 WOXX32 KWNP ALERT: Proton Event 10MeV S1 Integral Flux exceeded 10pfu SWXALTPX2 WOXX32 KWNP ALERT: Proton Event 10MeV S2 Integral Flux exceeded 100pfu SWXALTPX3 WOXX32 KWNP ALERT: Proton Event 10MeV S3 Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu SWXALTPX4 WOXX32 KWNP ALERT: Proton Event 10MeV S4 Integral Flux exceeded 10000pfu SWXALTPX5 WOXX32 KWNP ALERT: Proton Event 10MeV S5 Integral Flux exceeded 100000pfu SWXWARPC0 WOXX31 KWNP WARNING: Proton 100MeV Integral Flux above 1pfu expected SWXALTPC0 WOXX31 KWNP ALERT: Proton Event 100MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1pfu For more information, please contact: Robert Rutledge Joe Kunches Lead, SWF Customer and Media Relations SWPC SWPC Boulder, CO 80305 Boulder, CO 80305 303-497-3029 303-497-5275 Robert.Rutledge@xxxxxxxx Joseph.Kunches@xxxxxxxx National Service Change Notices are online at: http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm $$
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