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NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION MESSAGE 94-50...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
330 PM EST WED NOV 23 1994
TO: USERS OF PRODUCTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS
FORECAST CENTER
FROM: FRED ZBAR
ACTING CHIEF, SERVICES DEVELOPMENT BRANCH
SUBJECT: PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF NSSFC POWER OUTAGE
(THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED BY BILL ALEXANDER OF THE
WARNING AND FORECAST BRANCH OF THE OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY)
...CORRECTED FOR ENDING TIME OF POWER OUTAGE, CORRECTED STATE INFO
IN #2, AND FURTHER INFO IN #4...
The National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSFC) will experience
a planned electrical power outage from 6:00 p.m. CST on November 29
to 2:00 a.m. on November 30. There is some flexibility in the
schedule such that if significant adverse weather were going on, a
24 hour postponement could be arranged.
During the outage the following NSSFC products and programs will
be impacted:
1. SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES, OUTLOOKS, STATUS MESSAGES AND
DISCUSSION: Backup products will be provided by the Air Force
Global Weather Center.
2. NATIONAL AVIATION WEATHER ADVISORY UNIT PRODUCTS: Area
Forecasts will be suspended. AIRMETS and SIGMETS will be
provided by the responsible Weather Service Forecast Offices
(WSFO) at Sterling, Virginia; Miami, Florida; Chicago,
Illinois; Fort Worth, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; and
San Francisco, California. (Convective SIGMETs handled as
regular SIGMETS.)
International SIGMETs will be handled by the National Hurricane
Center, Miami, Florida and WSFO Honolulu, Hawaii.
3. RADAR CODED MESSAGES: There will be no processing of the
WSR-88D Radar Coded Messages (RCMs) in order to generate the
automated radar observations (ROBs); therefore, the automated
ROBs will not be available.
4. GOES TAP: No impact.
5. NATIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY: Suspended or transmitted early.
As mentioned at the outset, this is a preliminary notification and
there could be some changes. If necessary, a follow-up or updated
notification message will be sent under this same communication
identifier.
If you have any questions, please call Fred Ostby, Director of
NSSFC, at (816)-426-5922.
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