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Public Information Statement

National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX

920 AM CDT Mon May 20 2024



To:        Subscribers:

           -NOAA Weather Wire Service

           -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network

           -NOAAPort

           Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees

 

From:      Greg Schoor, Chief 

           Marine, Tropical and Tsunami Services Branch

        

Subject:   National Tropical Cyclone Watch Warning Product 

           (TCV) Collaboration Testing May 20-24, 2024 (backup 

           week: June 3-7)

 

The NWS National Hurricane Center (NHC), Ocean Prediction Center

(OPC), and Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in the NWS Eastern 

Region, Southern Region, and Western Region will perform internal 

testing of the National Tropical Cyclone Watch/Warning (TCV) 

product collaboration process daily from Monday, May 20, 2024, 

through Friday, May 24, 2024. Monday, June 3, through Friday, June

7, is the designated backup week. 





Internal testing will begin at approximately 1500 GMT and 

terminate at 1900 GMT daily during the scheduled test days. 





Internal TCV test products are not intended to be released

externally through NWS dissemination and communication systems. 

The text products affected by collaboration testing are the 

National Tropical Cyclone Watch/Warning (TCV) products issued 

under the following AWIPS Product Identifiers (PIL) and World 

Meteorological Organization (WMO) Identifiers (ID):





TCV Product                    AWIPS PIL   WMO ID

------------                   ---------   -------

Atlantic National TCV          TCVAT/1-5/  WTNT/81-85/ KNHC  

East Pacific National TCV      TCVEP/1-5/  WTPZ/81-85/ KNHC





In addition, the following National Digital Forecast Database

(NDFD) elements will be created for this test:

     - Tropical cyclone wind probabilities (incremental and 

          cumulative) for 34 kt, 50 kt, and 64 kt

     - Hazard grid (including tropical storm, hurricane, and 

          storm surge hazards)  





The NWS will continue periodic internal tropical software testing

during the remainder of 2024. The national TCV product will 

contain a summary of collaborated wind and/or storm surge watches 

and warnings, depicted by NWS-defined geographic zones.





NWS WFOs participating in the national TCV product collaboration

tests are listed below by NWS Region:





NWS – Eastern Region

 

Albany, NY (ALY)

Boston, MA (BOX)

Binghamton, NY (BGM)

Burlington, VT (BTV)

Caribou, ME (CAR)

Charleston, SC (CHS)

Gray/Portland, ME (GYX)

Mount Holly, NJ (PHI)

Newport/Morehead City, NC (MHX)

New York, NY (OKX)

State College, PA (CTP)

Sterling, VA (LWX)

Wakefield, VA (AKQ)

Wilmington, NC (ILM)

Columbia, SC (CAE)

Greenville-Spartanburg, SC (GSP)

Raleigh-Durham, NC (RAH)

Blacksburg/Roanoke, VA (RNK)





NWS – Southern Region



Atlanta, GA (FFC) 

Austin-San Antonio, TX (EWX) 

Birmingham, AL (BMX) 

Brownsville, TX (BRO) 

Corpus Christi, TX (CRP) 

Fort Worth, TX (FWD) 

Houston/Galveston, TX (HGX) 

Jackson, MS (JAN) 

Jacksonville, FL (JAX) 

Key West, FL (KEY) 

Lake Charles, LA (LCH) 

Little Rock, AR (LZK) 

Melbourne, FL (MLB) 

Miami, FL (MFL) 

Mobile, AL (MOB) 

Morristown, TN (MRX) 

New Orleans, LA (LIX) 

San Juan, PR (SJU) 

Shreveport, LA (SHV) 

Tallahassee, FL (TAE) 

Tampa Bay Area, FL (TBW)





NWS – Western Region



Los Angeles, CA (LOX)

San Diego, CA (SGX)





For more information, please contact:

 

 Dan Reilly

 Warning Coordination Meteorologist

 National Weather Service Office Houston/Galveston, TX 

 dan.reilly@noaa.gov

         

National Public Information Statements are online at:

 

 https://www.weather.gov/notification/ 



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