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PNSWSH PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...AMENDED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC 1115 AM EDT FRI AUG 28 2009TO: SUBSCRIBERS:
-FAMILY OF SERVICES
-NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE
-EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK
-NOAAPORT
OTHER NWS PARTNERS AND NWS EMPLOYEES
FROM: JERALD DINGES
CHIEF... TEST AND EVLUATION BRANCH
OFFICE OF OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS
SUBJECT: AMENDED: TEST DATES CHANGED TO ACCOMMODATE A NEW
SCHEDULE RADIOSONDE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM /RRS/
WORKSTATION SUBSYSTEM /RWS/ BUILD 2 SYSTEM TEST
SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2009
USING TEST HEADERS
AS PART OF RWS BUILD 2 SOFTWARE UPGRADE SYSTEM TEST... NWS
WILL CONDUCT A DATA COMMUNICATIONS TEST IN OCTOBER NOVEMBER
AND DECEMBER 2009 USING TEST HEADERS. IN ADDITION, A
PRELIMINARY TEST WILL BE CONDUCTED TO CHECK OUT THE END TO
END COMMUNICATION IN SEPTEMBER 2009.
THIS TEST WILL ORIGINATE FROM THE NWS STERLING FIELD SUPPORT CENTER /SFSC/. THE TEST WILL CONSIST OF DAILY UPPER AIR CODED MESSAGES TRANSMITTED DURING THE NORMAL SYNOPTIC WINDOW FOR THE 00Z AND 12Z SOUNDINGS... AND AS NECESSARY ... AT ASYNOPTIC TIMES WHEN WEATHER CONDITIONS AND TEST REQUIREMENTS WARRANT. THESE TEST MESSAGES WILL BE IN THE SAME FORMAT AS OPERATIONAL MESSAGES BUT WILL HAVE DIFFERENT DATA REFLECTING UPPER AIR CONDITIONS AND CODING PRACTICES AS EXPLAINED BELOW.
A TEST HEADER HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR THE TEST: KSTA /STATION ID 69990/ WAS ESTABLISHED FOR THE STERLING FIELD SUPPORT CENTER /SFSC/. THE KSTA TEST CODED MESSAGE FORMAT WILL BE IN THE RRS FORMAT NOW IN SERVICE AT OVER 60 UPPER AIR SITES. RRS FORMATTED PRODUCTS ARE A RESULT OF CHANGES MADE TO THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION /WMO/ LEVEL SELECTION CRITERIA AND UPDATED CODING PRACTICES. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THESE MESSAGES... PLEASE REFERENCE THE MANUAL ON CODES WMO NO. 306... SECTION A.
WHEN THE INDIVIDUAL KSTA RRS PRODUCTS ARE RECEIVED BY THE NWS TELECOMMUNICATIONS GATEWAY... THEY ARE PACKAGED WITH OPERATIONAL UPPER AIR PRODUCTS INTO COLLECTIVE PRODUCTS CONVERTED INTO BUFR FORM. THESE PRODUCTS ARE THEN BROADCAST OVER NOAAPORT. THE INDIVIDUAL... COLLECTIVE AND BUFR MESSAGES ARE ALSO TRANSMITTED FROM THE NWSTG TO NWS CUSTOMERS OVER A VARIETY OF COMMUNICATION SERVICES.
THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS WILL BE ISSUED DURING THE TEST:PIL INDIVIDUAL COLLECTIVE WMO HEADER WMO HEADER
STAMANSTA USUS41 KSTA USUS01 KWBC USUS50 KWBC USUS90 KWBCUPUS50 KWBC UPUS90 KWBC STASGLSTA UMUS41 KSTA UKUS01 KWBC UKUS50 KWBC UKUS90 KWBC ULUS01 KWBC ULUS50 KWBC ULUS90 KWBC
UGUS01 KWBC UGUS50 KWBC UGUS90 KWBC
UHUS50 KWBC UHUS90 KWBC
STAABVSTA UFUS41 KSTA UEUS01 KWBC UEUS50 KWBC UEUS90 KWBC
UQUS50 KWBC UQUS90 KWBC
STAFZLSTA UXUS41 KSTA
BUFR COLLECTIVES: IUST41 KWBC IUST42 KWBC IUST43 KWBC
IUST44 KWBC IUST46 KWBC IUST48 KWBC
THE FORMAT OF THE TEST MESSAGES WILL BE THE SAME WMO FORMAT
FOR CODED UPPER AIR MESSAGES AS USED BY RRS SYSTEMS SINCE
2005. THE NUMBER OF LEVELS IN THE KSTA CODED MESSAGES WILL
BE SIMILAR TO THE CODED MESSAGES ROUTINELY TRANSMITTED FROM
THE OPERATIONAL RRS SITES.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE CHANGES... CONTACT:
AARON POYER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE/OPS24
1325 EAST WEST HIGHWAY
SILVER SPRING MARYLAND 20910
301-713-0326 EXT. 112
AARON.POYER@xxxxxxxx
OR
JAE LEE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE/OPS24
1325 EAST WEST HIGHWAY
SILVER SPRING MARYLAND 20910
301-713-0326 EXT. 158
JAE.LEE@xxxxxxxx
NWS PUBLIC INFORMATION NOTICES ARE ONLINE AT /USE LOWERCASE/:
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/OS/NOTIF.HTM
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