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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
145 PM EST TUE JAN 17 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 -
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Memphis, Tennessee, and Austin/San
Antonio, Texas
***** NOTICE *****
Another milestone in the Doppler, Weather Surveillance
Radar,(WSR-88D) program will be reached on January 19, 1995, when
the National Weather Service(NWS) commissions the WSR-88D radars at
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (call lettersPBZ), Memphis, Tennessee
(call letters NQA) and Austin/San Antonio, Texas (call
letters EWX). This brings the total of commissioned NWS WSR-88D
radars to 25.
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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