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Service Change Notice 12-33
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
416 PM EDT Tue Oct 2 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Mark Tew
Chief, Marine and Coastal Services Branch
Subject: Changes to West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
(WCATWC) Products Effective November 1, 2012
Effective, Thursday, November 1, 2012, at 1800 Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), the WCATWC will implement changes to its
tsunami products including formatting, readability, forecasts,
and advice to customers. Two products are being eliminated.
The products listed in Tables 1-4 will use new formats. The
products in Table 5 will be eliminated. There are no changes to
headers or message definitions.
These changes are the first phase of a multi-phase approach to
improve tsunami message content. Future phases will include input
based on a social science review of the message content.
Table 1. The text above the segmentation in WCATWC warning,
advisory and watch products for Alaska, British Columbia, the
United States (US) West Coast, Gulf of Mexico coast, East Coast,
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the eastern Canadian coast
has been eliminated. Segmented content is adapted for text-to-
speech usability for Weather Forecast Offices and other automated
systems.
Tsunami Product WMO Heading AWIPS ID
Tsunami Message WEPA41 PAAQ TSUWCA
Tsunami Message WEXX20 PAAQ TSUAT1
Table 2. WCATWC warning, advisory and watch non-segmented
products for Alaska, British Columbia, the US West Coast, Gulf of
Mexico coast, East Coast, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the
eastern Canadian coast have changed to a bulleted format and the
forecast and observation table has been reformatted.
Tsunami Product WMO Heading AWIPS ID
Public Tsunami Message WEAK51 PAAQ TSUAK1
Public Tsunami Message WEXX30 PAAQ TSUATE
Table 3. WCATWC non-segmented informational public products for
Alaska, British Columbia, the US West Coast, Gulf of Mexico
coast, East Coast, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the
eastern Canadian coast have changed to a bulleted format.
Tsunami Product WMO Heading AWIPS ID
Public Tsunami Information Statement WEAK53 PAAQ TIBAK1
Public Tsunami Information Statement WEXX32 PAAQ TIBATE
Table 4. WCATWC non-segmented informational products for Alaska,
British Columbia, the US West Coast, Gulf of Mexico coast, East
Coast, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the eastern Canadian
coast have changed to a bulleted format.
Tsunami Product WMO Heading AWIPS ID
Tsunami Seismic Information Statement SEAK71 PAAQ EQIAKX
Tsunami Seismic Information Statement SEUS71 PAAQ EQIWOC
Tsunami Seismic Information Statement SEXX60 PAAQ EQIAT1
Table 5. WCATWC non-segmented informational products for Alaska,
British Columbia, the US West Coast, Gulf of Mexico coast, East
Coast, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the eastern Canadian
coast have been eliminated. Content of these bulletins is
contained in the products listed in Table 3.
Tsunami Product WMO Heading AWIPS ID
Tsunami Information Statement WEPA43 PAAQ TIBWCA
Tsunami Information Statement WEXX22 PAAQ TIBAT1
Please see the following web site for links to examples of both
the old and the new products.
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/ExampleProducts
For more information or comments on changes, please contact:
Paul Whitmore
WCATWC
NWS
910 South Felton Street
Palmer, Alaska 99645
Phone: 907-745-4212
Email: Paul.Whitmore@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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