[nws-changes] 20120319: changes to RTP and HYD wd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20120319: changes to RTP and HYD wd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:54:23 -0600

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NOUS41 KWBC 191550
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Service Change Notice 12-12
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1150 AM EDT Mon Mar 19 2012

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

From:     Thomas Graziano
          Chief, Hydrologic Services Division

          Eli Jacks
          Chief, Fire&  Public Weather Services Branch

Subject:  Changes to the Regional Temperature and Precipitation
          (RTP) product and re-establishment of the Daily
          Hydrometeorological Data Summary (HYD) product at the
          Baltimore/Washington Weather Forecast Office WFO

Effective June 5, 2012, at 1200 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), the Baltimore/Washington (LWX) Weather Forecast Office
(WFO) will change the issuance times and content RTP product.
The RTP will contain data from automated stations such as the
Automated Surface Observing System and the Automated Weather
Observing System and will be issued twice daily around 0030 UTC
and 1230 UTC.

Other observational data, including 24-hour data from
cooperative observation (COOP) stations currently being sent in
the RTP product, will be transmitted in the Daily HYD product.
The HYD will be issued once per day around 10:00 AM local
standard time.

Products affected:

WMO HEADER    AWIPS ID  OLD ISSUANCE TIME    NEW ISSUANCE TIME
----------    --------  -----------------    -----------------
ASUS61 KLWX   RTPLWX       1400 UTC           0030 and 1230 UTC
SXUS51 KLWX   HYDLWX       not issued         10:00 AM LST

Samples of the new product formats are available at:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/observationdata.htm

For questions or comments about this change, please contact:

James E. Lee                      Jason Elliott
Meteorologist-in-Charge           Senior Service Hydrologist
Baltimore/Washington WFO          Baltimore/Washington WFO
43858 Weather Service Rd.         43858 Weather Service Rd.
Sterling VA 20166                 Sterling VA 20166
703-996-2222                      703-996-2234
james.e.lee@xxxxxxxx              jason.elliott@xxxxxxxx

National Service Change Notices are online at:

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

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