Service Change Notice

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Service Change Notice 14-12 Corrected
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
145 PM EST Fri Feb 28 2014
 
To:      Subscribers:
         -Family of Services 
         -NOAA Weather Wire Service
         -Emergency Manager Weather Information Network
         -NOAAPORT
         Other NWS partners and NWS employees
 
From:    Mark Tew
         Chief, Marine and Coastal Weather Services Branch 
 
Subject: Corrected: Changes to the text Tropical Weather
         Outlook effective May 15, 2014
 
Corrected AWIPS Identifiers (AI)
 
Effective May 15 2014, the following changes to the text
Tropical Weather Outlook (TWO) will take place:
 
1. Extended (5-day) Tropical Weather Outlook (TWO) becomes
operational at the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The
experimental 120-hour genesis probabilities that were embedded
within the TWO for the Atlantic and east Pacific basins during
the 2013 hurricane season will become operational.  
 
2. NHC and Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) will provide
the genesis probabilities in a semi-tabular form immediately
following the discussion instead of embedding it within the
discussion.
 
3. The TWO will be issued by NHC and CPHC in mixed case on an
experimental basis.  For additional details please see the
following Public Information Notice:
 
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/pns14cphc_mixed_case.txt
 
An example of the changes to the TWO can be found at:
 
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/20140228_hsu_twoChanges.php
 
The TWO is available online at:
 
Atlantic and east Pacific 
 
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
 
Central Pacific
 
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc
 
The WMO headers and AWIPS Identifiers (AI) for the text TWO are:  
 
Basin            WMO Header          AI
Atlantic         ABNT20 KNHC         TWOAT
east Pacific     ABPZ20 KNHC         TWOEP
central Pacific  ACPN50 PHFO         TWOCP
If you have questions regarding this notice, please contact:
 
John F. Kuhn
National Weather Service
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Email: John.F.Kuhn@noaa.gov
 
Phone: 301-713-1677 x121
 
Service Change Notices are online at:
 
http://www.weather.gov/om/notif.htm
 
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