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994 NOUS42 KWNO 102224 SPECIAL NCEP DISCUSSION CENTRAL OPERATIONS/NCEP/NWS/WASHINGTON DC 2210Z UTC FRI DEC 10 1999 102210Z...TO ALL USERS OF HPC PRODUCTS...HPC BEGAN ISSUING A REVISED SUITE OF QPF AND PROBABILISTIC SNOW/ICING FORECASTS BEGINNING DEC. 6TH. THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS CANNOT BE VIEWED ON AWIPS UNTIL THE AWIPS SOFTWARE IS UPDATED...99Q DAY 3 QPF... 98S DAY 2 SNOW/ICING...AND THE FOUR 6HR DAY 2 PRODUCTS 9GE.. 9HE..9IE..AND 9JE. ALSO...A PROBLEM WITH THE AWIPS METHOD OF HANDLING UPDATES DOES NOT ALLOW US TO RETRANSMIT PRODUCTS WITH A TURNAROUND OF LESS THAN 6HRS...THUS REVISED QPF FORECASTS ARE NOT MAKING IT INTO AWIPS. SINCE HPC HAS NOW EXTENDED ITS QPF FORECASTS TO DAY 3 THE APPENDED CODED MESSAGE NOW EXCEEDS THE AWIPS TEXT LIMIT...THUS THE MESSAGE ARRIVES IN SEPARATE PIECES AND CANNOT BE VIEWED EASILY IN THE AWIPS TEXT SYSTEM...HOWEVER THE MESSAGE CAN BE VIEWED ON AFOS. ATTEMPTS ARE BEING MADE TO RESOLVE THESE ISSUES THRU THE AWIPS PROGRAM OFFICE. ALL HPC PRODUCTS CAN BE VIEWED ON THE HPC HOME PAGE AT HTTP://WWW.HPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/QPF/QPFTXT.HTML BUREK/SDM/NCO/NCEP FOR DAVE REYNOLDS/CHIEF FCST OPS BRANCH/HPC ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
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