[nws-changes] 20110104: Extreme cold warning product-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:52:03 -0700

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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1250 PM EST Tue Jan 4 2011

TO:      Subscribers:
         -Family of Services
         -NOAA Weather Wire Service
         -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
         -NOAAPORT
         -Other NWS Partners, Users, and Employees

FROM:    Eli Jacks
         Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch

SUBJECT: Currently soliciting comments by April 15, 2011 on
         experimental use of an Extreme Cold Warning product

Beginning January 10, 2011, and continuing through April 15,
2011, select NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) will issue an
Extreme Cold (EC) Warning product on an experimental basis.

Comments should be submitted at the following web address:

  http://www.weather.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=ecw

On occasion temperatures may fall to well below zero readings
with no wind occurring.  Currently the only way to headline very
cold temperatures is with the use of Wind Chill Advisory or
Warning products.  The experimental EC warning product will be
issued in the rare situations where air temperatures fall to
dangerous levels as identified by wind chill criteria but there
is little to no wind occurring.

EC warnings will be issued as Non Precipitation Weather (NPW)
products and will use NWS Valid Time Event Code (VTEC) EC.W for
dissemination. The WFOs that will be participating in this
experiment and product identifiers are shown in Table 1.

Table 1.
WFO                         WMO HEADING     AWIPS ID
Rapid City, SD              WWUS73 KUNR     NPWUNR
Aberdeen, SD                WWUS73 KABR     NPWABR
Sioux Falls, SD             WWUS73 KFSD     NPWFSD
Bismarck, ND                WWUS73 KBIS     NPWBIS
Eastern ND/Grand Forks, ND  WWUS73 KFGF     NPWFGF
Minneapolis, MN             WWUS73 KMPX     NPWMPX
Duluth, MN                  WWUS73 KDLH     NPWDLH
Little Rock, AR             WWUS73 KLZK     NPWLZK

A Product Description Document (PDD) for this experimental
product is online at:

  http://products.weather.gov/viewliste.php

After the experimental period and the close of the comment
period, NWS will evaluate all comments to determine whether to
proceed with national implementation of the EC warning product.

For comments or questions regarding this PNS, please contact:

  Jim Keeney
  7220 NW 101St Terrace Building
  Routing Code: W/CR1
  Kansas City, MO 64153-2371
  Phone: 816-268-3141
  jim.keeney@xxxxxxxx
or
  Paul Stokols
  National Weather Service
  Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services
  1325 East West Highway
  Silver Spring, MD 20910
  301-713-1867 x-139
  paul.stokols@xxxxxxxx

National Public Information Notices are online at:

  http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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