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The Air Force Weather Agency will suspend most production capabilities from 1645Z to 2300Z on 3 Sep 2008 to facilitate equipment upgrades. No data will be routed to external agencies (e.g., OWSs, WFs, FNMOC, NOAA, AFTAC, DTRA) and AFWA will be unable to ingest data from external sources. METSAT data will not be updated nor disseminated. Alphanumeric data such as observations and forecasts will queue during the outage and be ingested when systems are returned to service.
Following the outage, there will be a period of degraded operations to repopulate AFWA databases.
*Data Affected by the Outage: *TDRR, EDRR, SDRR , SSMI, MET-7 and MET-9 *Date and Time of the Outage: * 9/3/2008, 1645 UTC, 12:45 PM, EDT *Length of the Outage: * 6 hours and 15 minutes *Contact Point for Questions: ESPC Operations OCL (Operations Crew Leader), 301-817-3880 *
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