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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
1011 AM EDT Sun Apr 21 2024

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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service XXXX XX
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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:   Hurricane Threats and Impacts (HTI) Mosaic Testing on 
           April 25, 2024
 
Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in the National Weather Service (NWS) Southern and Eastern Regions will commence with Hurricane Threats and Impacts (HTI) threat grid mosaic testing on Thursday, April 25.  Testing will begin at approximately 1500 UTC.  Test activities will take approximately 1 hour; however, NWS dissemination systems may take up to an hour and a half to purge all test data.  All test data is expected to be cleared by 1730 UTC.  

For the test, HTI grids will be created for hurricane Wind Threat, Storm Surge Threat, Flooding Rain Threat, and Tornado Threat at each participating WFO.  Those grids are stitched together into storm-scale HTI graphics.  The HTI Mosaic graphics are available in Keyhole Markup Language (KML) format on the following webpage: 
https://www.weather.gov/hti 

The mosaics are also available through the National Digital Forecast Database and on web pages hosted by the Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) affected by the tropical cyclone.  These webpages use the following URL format, where “wfo” should be replaced with the 3 digit identifier for the WFO of interest:

NWS Eastern Region WFOs:
https://www.weather.gov/wfo/tropical#hti 

NWS Southern Region WFOs: 
https://www.weather.gov/srh/tropical?office=wfo#hti 

More details on HTI can be found in the Product Description Document:
https://www.weather.gov/media/srh/tropical/PDD_HTI.pdf 

Periodic software and hardware testing in preparation for tropical cyclone events will continue during the remainder of 2024.

For more information, please contact:
 
  XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX (name)
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  National Weather Service Office
  XXXX XX (city, state)
  XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX@noaa.gov

National Public Information Statements are online at: 
https://www.weather.gov/notification/ 
 
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