[nws-changes] 20130220: TDWR products-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20130220: TDWR products-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:38:55 -0700

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Technical Implementation Notice 13-03
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
646 AM EST Wed Feb 19 2013

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

From:     Richard J. Vogt
          Director, WSR-88D Radar Operations Center

Subject:  More Frequent Products from 7 Additional FAA
          Terminal Doppler Weather Radars During Hazardous
          Weather Effective February 27, 2013

Effective February 27, 2013, at approximately 1500 Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), NWS will more frequent disseminate radar
products generated by the NWS Supplemental Product Generator
(SPG) from 7 additional FAA Terminal Doppler Weather Radars
(TDWRs) during the TDWR hazardous weather mode also known as
Volume Coverage Pattern 80 (VCP 80). These products will be
provided via the NWS Radar Product Central Data Collection
Dissemination Service (RPCCDS) and NOAAPort.

NWS initiated more frequent radar product distribution from
11 TDWRs on April 12, 2012, (Reference TIN 12-13).  The 7 TDWRs
added with this notice are listed below:

Associated WFO   TDWR ID   TDWR FAA SITE NAME (ICAO)
--------------   -------   ---------------------------
KOUN             TOKC      OKLAHOMA CITY (OKC)
KLWX             TBWI      BALTIMORE (BWI)
KLWX             TDCA      WASHINGTON NATIONAL (DCA)
KLWX             TADW      ANDREWS AFB MD (ADW)
KLWX             TIAD      DULLES (IAD)
KRAH             TRDU      RALEIGH (RDU)
KEAX             TMCI      KANSAS CITY (MCI)

As with other centrally-collected TDWR-SPG products, the products
from these added sites will be archived at the National Climatic
Data Center (NCDC). The inventory of the archived products will
be contained along with other TDWR products under the NEXRAD
Level III tab at:

  http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pls/plhas/has.dsselect

More information about how the NWS generates products from FAAs
TDWR data can be found at:

  http://www.roc.noaa.gov/spg/

If you have any questions about the technical content or
generation of these products, please contact:

  Mike Istok
  michael.istok@xxxxxxxx

If you have questions about the NOAAPort activation of these
products, please contact:

  Brian Gockel
  brian.gockel@xxxxxxxx

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm

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