950109: NEXRAD COMMISSIONING NOTICE - TOPEKA, KANSAS AND BOISE, IDAHO

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• Subject: 950109: NEXRAD COMMISSIONING NOTICE - TOPEKA, KANSAS AND BOISE, IDAHO
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• Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 08:26:44 -0700

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
840 AM EST MON JAN 9 1995

ATTENTION:   ALL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (NWS) OFFICES, 
             FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS, NOAA WEATHER WIRE
             SERVICE SUBSCRIBERS, OTHER NWS PRODUCT USERS

SUBJECT:     NEXRAD COMMISSIONING NOTICE - TOPEKA, KANSAS AND BOISE, IDAHO

                       ***** NOTICE *****

ANOTHER MILESTONE IN THE DOPPLER, WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR, (WSR-88D)
PROGRAM WILL BE REACHED ON JANUARY 10, 1995, WHEN THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE (NWS) COMMISSIONS THE WSR-88D RADAR AT TOPEKA, KANSAS (CALL
LETTERS TWX).  ON JANUARY 11, 1995 ANOTHER WSR-88D RADAR WILL BE
COMMISSIONED.  THE LOCATION FOR THIS NEW RADAR IS AT BOISE, IDAHO (CALL
LETTERS CBX).  THIS BRINGS THE TOTAL OF COMMISSIONED NWS WSR-88D RADARS TO
22. 

COMMISSIONING MEANS THAT THESE RADARS ARE NOW ISSUING PRODUCTS, SUCH AS
THE RADAR OBSERVATION (ROB) MESSAGE, IN AN OFFICIAL CAPACITY.  ALSO,
PRODUCTS FROM THE NEXRAD INFORMATION DISSEMINATION SERVICE WILL NO
LONGER HAVE AN EXPERIMENTAL OR TEST MESSAGE APPENDED TO THEM.  

PERSONS WISHING MORE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE WSR-88D SHOULD
CONTACT THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE OR CALL 
(301) 713-0070.

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