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Changes to NCEP Information on Changes to NCEP Model http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/ Model Products Products can be found at http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/

Modify Proposed Change NWS is proposing to change all NWS text Herb White OCWWS, 301-713-0090 Herbert.White 5/28/2010 9/15/2010 http://ww Office of pending to Mixed Case and products to include upper and lower case Awareness x146 @noaa.gov w.weathe Climate, Water, Expanded alphabetic characters rather than all Branch, r.gov/os/n and Weather Character Set in All uppercase as is presently done. Additional W/OS51 otification Services Director NWS Text punctuation and other characters that are part 1325 East-West /pns10mi Products of the International Reference Alphabet No. 5 Highway, Silver xed_case would also be permitted. Spring, MD .doc 20910 Modify Modification of the NCEP is proposing to modify the pns11virtcape.h Geoff DiMego 5200 Auth Road 301-763-8000 geoff.dimego 1/12/2011 2/28/2011 geoffrey. National Centers pending Computation of computations of convective available potential tm W/NP22 x 7221 @noaa.gov manikin@ for Instability energy ( CAPE ), convective inhibition (CIN), Suitland, MD noaa.gov Environmental Parameters in the and lifted index (LI) in its modeling systems 20746-4325 Prediction NCEP Model Suite during 2011. Director

Modify Proposed Proposed increase in horizontal resolution pns11_2.5km.ht Kathryn 1325 East West 301-713- kathryn.gilbert 10/13/2011 11/30/2011 kathryn.gi Office of Science pending Enhancements to over the CONUS from 5 km to 2.5 km and the m Gilbert Hwy 0023x130 @noaa.gov lbert@no and Technology GFS-based future addition of several weather elements to Silver Spring, aa.gov Director gridded MOS the GFS-Based Gridded Model Output MD 20910-3283 Product Statistics (MOS) Guidance. Modify Experimental NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) Eureka PDD Wave http://www Brian Garcia WFO Eureka 707.443.6485 brian.garcia@ 1/14/2014 6/30/2014 http://ww Western Region pending Revised Wave has been testing an enhancement to the Terminology_D .wrh.noaa. 300 Startare noaa.gov w.nws.no Director Terminology in the Coastal Waters Forecast (CWF) to provide ec2013.pdf gov/eka/m Drive aa.gov/su Coastal Waters greater wave detail for the end marine user in arine/ Eureka, CA rvey/nws- Forecast, Update 1 the decision making process. Sea state will be 95502 survey.ph described by providing detailed wave p?code= information to the extent it is useful for the EENWT mariner. The amount of detailed wave information provided will depend on the conditions. Modify Experimental This experimental PDD expands the risk Mixed_Case_W Michael Szkil NWS 301-427-9325 michael.szkil 7/31/2013 6/30/2014 http://ww Office of pending Mixed Case Letters reduction effort for mixed case text products to FO_Text_Produ Awareness @noaa.gov w.weathe Climate, Water, in WFO Text a few operational, but non-critical, Weather cts.pdf Branch r.gov/surv and Weather Products Forecast Office (WFO) text products: the 1325 East-West ey/nws- Services Director Area Forecast Discussion (AFD), the Regional Highway survey.ph Weather Summary (RWS) and local PNS’s Silver Spring, p?code= (including local SCN’s and TIN’s) for four MD 20910 mixed- WFO case

Modify Experimental Use NWS is expanding its mixed case text Product pns13spcmixed Michael Szkil NWS 301-427-9325 michael.szkil 7/31/2013 6/30/2014 http://ww Office of pending of Mixed-Case Risk Reduction effort to include the NWS case.htm Awareness @noaa.gov w.weathe Climate, Water, Letters in SPC Storm Prediction Center (SPC) Public Severe Branch r.gov/surv and Weather Public Severe Weather Outlook product (WOUS40 1325 East-West ey/nws- Services Director Weather Outlook KWNS/PWOSPC). Highway survey.ph Silver Spring, p?code= MD 20910 mixed- case

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Modify Proposed NWS is soliciting comments on a revised idss_sdd_emc_ Wendy Levine NWS/SPP 301-427-9062 wendy.levine 5/16/2014 8/31/2014 nws.idss. Office of pending Enhanced Impact- Service Description Document (SDD) Version2.pdf 1325 East West @noaa.gov comment Climate, Water, Based Decision describing proposed enhanced impact-based Hwy., Silver s@noaa. and Weather Support Services decision support services (IDSS) for the Spring, MD gov Services Director for the Emergency emergency management community 20911 Management supporting events/incidents impacting safety Community, of life and property. Update 1

Modify Global Real-Time NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Global Eval_Letter_rtof Avichal Mehra Environmental 301-683-3746 avichal.mehra 8/13/2015 9/11/2015 steven.ea National Centers pending Ocean Forecast Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS). s_v1.1 Modeling Center @noaa.gov rle@noaa for System (RTOFS) Changes include: increasing verticle 5830 University .gov Environmental v1.1 resolution to 41 levels; incorporate CICE ice Research Court Prediction model; and improved atomspheric forcings. College Park, Director MD 20740

Modify Short Range NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Short Eval_Letter_sre Geoff DiMego Environmental 301-683-3764 geoff.dimego 8/17/2015 9/15/2015 geoff.dim National Centers pending Ensemble Range Ensemble Forecasting (SREF) model f2015 Modeling Center @noaa.gov ego@noa for Forecasting with a number of changes. 5830 University a.gov Environmental (SREF) model Research Court Prediction v.7.0 College Park, Director MD 20741

Modify Gridded Localized MDL is proposing to upgrade the Gridded Eval_Letter_gl Judy NWS Office of 301-427-9496 judy.ghirardell 8/13/2015 9/15/2015 steven.ea National Centers pending Aviation Model Localized Aviation Model Output Statistics mp_v1.1 Ghirardelli Science, [email protected] rle@noaa for Output Statistics Program (GLMP). Changes include: Technology & .gov Environmental Program (GLMP) introducing new elements; increasing number Innovation Prediction v1.1.0 of LAMP forecast points and increase number 1325 East-West Director of observations which are input into GLMP; Highway replacing SREF data with observations and Silver Spring, MOS data for augmentation of Gridded LAMP MD 20911 temperature and dew point forecasts; modified analysis scheme. Modify North American MDL is proposing to upgrade the to North Eval_Letter_na Mark Antolik NWS Office of 301-427-9480 mark.antolik@ 8/21/2015 9/24/2015 steven.ea National Centers pending Mesoscale Model American Mesoscale Model Output Statistics mmos_v3.1 Science, noaa.gov rle@noaa for Output Statistics (NAM-MOS). Changes include: updated Technology & .gov Environmental (NAM-MOS) v.3.1 equations for snowfall amount; updated Innovation Prediction equations for 6- and 12-h thunderstorm 1325 East-West Director probabilities and severe weather; new Highway precipitation type equations for cool season; Silver Spring, introduction of thunderstorm probabilities for MD 20910 Alaska MOS sites.

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Modify Global Forecast MDL is proposing to upgrade the Global Eval_Letter_gfs Phil Shafer NWS Office of 301-427-9488 phil.shafer@n 8/21/2015 9/24/2015 steven.ea National Centers pending System-based Forecast System-based Model Output mos_v4.2 Science, oaa.gov rle@noaa for Model Output Statistics (GFS-MOS) with a number of Technology & .gov Environmental Statistics (GFS- changes. Innovation Prediction MOS) v.4.2 1325 East-West Director Highway Silver Spring, MD 20912

Modify Global Ensemble NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Global Eval_Letter_gef Dingchen Hou Environmental 301-683-3707 dingchen.hou 8/27/2015 9/25/2015 steven.ea National Centers pending Forecast System Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS). Changes s_v11.0 Modeling Center @noaa.gov rle@noaa for (GEFS) v.11.0 include: increasing both the horizontal and 5830 University .gov Environmental verticle resolution; running latest Global Research Court Prediction Spectral Model with Semi-Lagrangian College Park, Director dynamic scheme and improved physics MD 20741 scheme; modifying the ensemble initialization method; and improving the Stochastic Total Tendency Perturbation scheme.

Modify Graphical NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Graphical Eval_Letter_gtg Brian Aviation 816-584-7239 brian.p.pettegr 8/25/2015 10/1/2015 steven.ea National Centers pending Turbulence Turbulence Guidance (GTG). Changes _v1.0 Pettegrew Weather Center [email protected] rle@noaa for Guidance (GTG) include: a re-mapping of the weighting such 7220 NW 101st .gov Environmental v.3.0 that all turbulence and diagnostics are Terrace Prediction mapped to a single unit of measurement, Kansas City, Director Eddy Dissipation Rate; extra equations added MO 64154 to diagnose turbulence in the boundary layer from 1-10 thousand feet; extend forecast hours to include 15 and 18; addition of Mountain Wave Turbulence.

Modify Extratropical Storm In this enhancement, the Extra-Tropical Storm Eval_Letter_ets Arthur Taylor NWS Office of 301-427-9444 arthur.taylor@ 8/26/2015 10/2/2015 steven.ea National Centers pending Surge (ETSS) Surge (ETSS) model will use a Use a new s_v2.1.doc Science & noaa.gov rle@noaa for Model v.2.1 Alaska basin which lets water flow through the Technology .gov Environmental Bering Strait. It will also include overland Integration Prediction calculations of water level inundation based 1325 East-West Director on surge plus tide for all US coastal areas. Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Silver Spring, MD 20910

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Modify Experimental Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings National_IBW_ http://www John Ferree NWS Severe 405-325-2209 john.t.ferree@ 4/1/2015 11/4/2015 http://ww Analyze, pending Impact-Based, and Severe Weather Statements will be pdd_amd_0908 .weather.g Storms Services noaa.gov w.weathe Forecast and Severe Convective stratified into categories distinguishing 15 ov/impacts 120 David L. r.gov/surv Support Office Warnings extreme cases from base convective Boren Blvd., ey/nws- Director Enhancement, warnings. Additional enhanced wording will be Norman, OK survey.ph Update 2 included to convey information about 73072 p?code=I associated impacts, specific hazards BW expected, and recommended actions, both within the bullet statements and as part of the tag line codes. Due to the AWIPS transition, the 2015 version is the same as in 2014. The number of WFOs testing the enhanced warnings has been increased and will include all WFOs in NWS Central and Southern Regions, as well some WFOs from the other 2 regions forecasting for CONUS.

Modify Experimental Nine WFOs in NWS Western and Southern Enhanced RFW Heath NWS Fire 208-334-9862 heath.hockenb 8/6/2015 11/30/2015 www.nws. Analyze, pending Enhanced Format Regions will issue an experimental bulleted Bullet Format - Hockenberry Weather [email protected] noaa.gov/ Forecast and for Red Flag Red Flag Warnings (RFWs) throughout the National Program v survey/nw Support Office Warnings, Update 2013–2015 fire weather season. The PDD.pdf 3833 S. s- Director 1 experimental RFW format moves the weather Development survey.ph threat, reason for issuance and affected area Avenue p?code=e from the main headline to several easy to read Boise, Id 83705 xpbullete bullets immediately below the headline. Using dRFW this bullet format of the RFW, NWS can simplify the headline while still providing essential details about the threat. These changes will make the RFW easier to read Modify Enhancements to NWS Central Region offices have issued PDD SMW https://pro Brian Hirsch NWS Central 816-268-3149 brian.hirsch@ 10/1/2014 11/30/2015 http://ww Central Region pending the Special Marine Special Marine Warnings (SMW) and Marine Waterspout ducts.weat Region HQ noaa.gov w.nws.no Director Warning and Weather Statements (MWS) with tags for hail Tags 2015.pdf her.gov/vi 7720 NW 101st aa.gov/su Marine Weather and wind as an operational product format ewExperi Terrace rvey/nws- Statement for the since 2010. NWS is proposing changing how mental.ph Kansas City, survey.ph Great Lakes these hail and wind tags are encoded to bring p?selrow= MO 64153 p?code= them into conformity with how they are done 535 WSCGL within the Severe Thunderstorm Warning product, and to introduce a new tag to help users better identify the potential threat from waterspouts.

Modify Experimental use NWS intends to expand its mixed-case text pns15nhc- Michael Szkil NWS 301-427-9325 michael.szkil 5/15/2015 11/30/2015 http://ww Analyze, pending of Mixed-Case product risk-reduction effort to include select mixed-case.htm Awareness @noaa.gov w.weathe Forecast and Letters in Select products issued by both the National Branch r.gov/surv Support Office NHC/CPHC Hurricane Center (NHC) and the Central 1325 East-West ey/nws- Director Products, Update 1 Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC). The original Highway survey.ph set of products impacted included the Tropical Silver Spring, p?code= Weather Outlooks and Tropical Cyclone MD 20910 mixed- Discussions for the Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, case and Central Pacific basins. In 2015, the list

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Modify Proposed The NWS is proposing expansion of NOAA FINAL National http://www Wendy NWS Central 816-268-3122 wendy.pearso 10/14/2015 12/15/2015 wendy.pe Analyze, pending Expansion of NWS support for these multi-agency runoff PNS Proposal .weather.g Pearson Region HQ [email protected] arson@n Forecast and NOAA/NWS risk tools in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, for Expansion ov/ncrfc/M 7220 NW 101st oaa.gov Support Office Support for Multi- and Ohio through federal, state, and academic of NWS SR_Runof Terrace Director agency Runoff Risk collaboration in 2016-2017. Included in the Support for the fInfo Kansas City, Forecasts proposed expansion, the NWS will upgrade Mulit-Agency MO 64153 the modeling structure. The NWS will Runoff Risk transition from a watershed basin basis to a Forecast.docx 4kmx4km gridded model which will increase the spatial resolution of the tool as well as allow a more universal basis across a larger region. The grid package will include the calculated runoff risk and model forcings such as observed and forecast precipitation and temperature and may also include model states such as soil temperature, soil moisture, and ground snow water equivalent values.

Modify Experimental The Precipitation Potential Index (PPI) PDD_NDFD Andy Horvitz NWS/AFSO 301-427-9357 andy.horvitz@ 9/26/2015 12/31/2015 www.nws. Analyze, pending Precipitation forecast is now available as a new element in Experimental 1325 East West noaa.gov noaa.gov/ Forecast and Potential Index NDFD experimentally. The PPI is used by PPI.pdf Highway survey/nw Support Office (PPI) in the NDFD WFOs to derive 12-hour Probability of Silver Spring, s- Director Precipitation (PoP12) forecasts and provides MD 20910 survey.ph detail on precipitation timing at up to hourly p?code= resolution. Providing PPI via NDFD enables PPI- users to make near-term decisions based on NDFD finer temporal resolution precipitation information.

Modify Experimental The Open Lake Forecast (GLF) is a text ModernizedGL http://www Brian Hirsch NWS Central 816-268-3149 brian.hirsch@ 4/1/2015 1/1/2016 http://ww Analyze, pending Modernized Open product issued by five primary NWS Weather FPDD.pdf .crh.noaa. Region HQ noaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Lakes Forecast for Forecast Offices (WFOs) along the Great gov/dtx/?n 7720 NW 101st aa.gov/su Support Office the Great Lakes Lakes to state expected weather conditions =GLFTabl Terrace rvey/nws- Director within their marine forecast area of e Kansas City, survey.ph responsibility through Day 5. The enhanced MO 64153 p?code= product will provide advance notice to MODGTL mariners of forecast weather, wind, and wave AKESFC conditions in a tabular format. This format has ST been part of a Great Lakes Harmonization team between NWS and Environment Canada Modify Experimental The experimental full resolution National PDD_NDFDXM http://previ Andy Horvitz NWS/AFSO 301-427-9357 andy.horvitz@ 9/26/2015 2/1/2016 http://wea Analyze, pending NDFD Full Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) eXtensible L_full.pdf ew.weathe 1325 East West noaa.gov ther.gov/s Forecast and Resolution XML Markup Language (XML) web service will r.gov/xml/ Highway urvey/nws-Support Office Web Service provide forecasts for CONUS at 2.5km spatial Silver Spring, survey.ph Director resolution for all forecast times and at 1 hour MD 20910 p?code=x temporal resolution for the first 36 hours from mlsoap NDFD issuance time. These are the finest spatial and temporal resolutions at which CONUS Weather Forecast Offices provide forecasts. These resolutions are consistent with the current operational resolutions of NDFD provided in GRIB2 via ftp or http, and

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Modify WSR-88D The NEXRAD Program will conduct the Beta tin15-17wsr- Jessica Radar 405-573-8808 jessica.a.schu 2/1/2016 6/30/2016 jessica.a. Office of pending Software Build 17 Test and deployment of the Radar Data 88dbuild17.htm Schultz Operations [email protected] schultz@ Observations Acquisition/Radar Product Generator Center noaa.gov Director (RDA/RPG) Build 17.0 software and hardware 1200 upgrade. The Beta Test is tentatively Westheimer scheduled to begin in Feb. 2016. Drive Norman, OK 73069

Modify Experimental Five WFOs will issue an experimental Enhanced RFW Heath NWS Fire 208-334-9862 heath.hockenb 11/1/2013 9/30/2014 www.nws. Analyze, Discontinued - Enhanced Format bulleted Red Flag Warnings (RFWs) Bullet Format - Hockenberry Weather [email protected] noaa.gov/ Forecast and Effective for Red Flag throughout the 2013–2014 fire weather National Program v survey/nw Support Office 08/06/2015 Warnings season. The experimental RFW format moves PDD_9_13 3833 S. s- Director Replaced by the weather threat, reason for issuance and Development survey.ph Update 1 affected area from the main headline to Avenue p?code=e several easy to read bullets immediately Boise, Id 83705 xpbullete below the headline. Using this bullet format of dRFW the RFW, NWS can simplify the headline while still providing essential details about the threat. These changes will make the RFW easier to read and understand.

Modify Experimental use NWS intends to expand its mixed-case text pns14cphc_mix Michael Szkil NWS 301-427-9325 michael.szkil 5/14/2014 11/30/2014 http://ww Analyze, Discontinued - of Mixed-Case product risk-reduction effort to include select ed_case.txt Awareness @noaa.gov w.weathe Forecast and Effective Letters in Select products issued by both the National Branch r.gov/surv Support Office 05/15/2015 NHC/CPHC Hurricane Center (NHC) and the Central 1325 East-West ey/nws- Director Replaced by Products Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC). The Highway survey.ph Update 1 products impacted include the Tropical Silver Spring, p?code= Weather Outlooks and Tropical Cyclone MD 20910 mixed- Discussions for the Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, case and Central Pacific basins.

Modify Experimental Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings National_IBW_ http://www John Ferree NWS Severe, 405-325-2209 john.t.ferree@ 3/25/2014 11/4/2014 http://ww Office of Discontinued - Impact-Based, and Severe Weather Statements will be pdd_030714_v .weather.g Fire, Public and noaa.gov w.weathe Climate, Water, Effective Severe Convective stratified into categories distinguishing er2 (1).pdf ov/impacts Winter Weather r.gov/surv and Weather 03/31/2015 Warnings extreme cases from base convective Services Branch ey/nws- Services Director Replaced by Enhancement, warnings. Additional enhanced wording will be 120 David L. survey.ph Update 2 Update 1 included to convey information about Boren Blvd., p?code=I associated impacts, specific hazards Norman, OK BW expected, and recommended actions, both 73072 within the bullet statements and as part of the tag line codes. Based on feedback from the 2013 demonstartion, the 2014 demonstration will include some changes. The number of WFOs testing the enhanced warnings has been increased and will include WFOs from

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Modify Change to P-VTEC NWS is proposing that when When a Winter pns15vtec- David Soroka NWS Severe, 301-427-9346 David.Soroka 7/28/2015 8/31/2015 david.sor Analyze, Approved for Line(s) and Storm Warning or Lake Effect Snow Warning winter.htm Fire, Public and @noaa.gov oka@noa Forecast and Operations - Associated is upgraded to an Ice Storm or Blizzard Winter Weather a.gov Support Office Effective Headline(s) When Warning for the same geographical area, the Services Branch Director 11/17/2015 Upgrading from WSW segment will now contain only one 1325 East-West Winter Storm headline and two P-VTEC lines. The headline Highway Warning or Lake will list the new warning only. This change is Silver Spring, Effect Snow intended to avoid confusion for those who may MD 20910 Warning to Ice not fully understand the distinctions between Storm and Blizzard the two winter hazard products in question Warning (i.e., the original product and the upgraded product). It will lead to more effective automated communication of winter weather warning information. Modify Proposed Changes NWS is proposing changes to NWS Point icons_pdd_final http://inno Andy Horvitz NWS/AFSO 301-427-9357 andy.horvitz@ 2/27/2014 3/28/2014 icons@no Analyze, Approved for to NWS Point Forecast Icons using static, comparative _022614 ver vation.srh. 1325 East West noaa.gov aa.gov Forecast and Operations - Forecast Icons examples. The new icons are intended to 2.pdf noaa.gov/ Highway Support Office Effective enhance communication of rapidly changing newicons/i Silver Spring, Director 07/07/2015 weather conditions, while also highlighting cons.html MD 20910 current weather hazards. The examples have been designed to show how the icons would appear for selected high-impact weather scenarios in both the current and proposed new format.

Modify Hurricane Weather NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Hurricane Eval_Letter_hw Vijay Environmental 301-683-3672 vijay.tallaprag 5/21/2015 6/2/2015 steven.ea National Centers Approved for Research and Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) rf2015 Tallapragada Modeling Center [email protected] rle@noaa for Operations - Forecast (HWRF) system. Changes include: increasing the 5830 University v .gov Environmental Effective system v.9.0 horizontal resolution of atmospheric model for Research Court Prediction 06/09/2015 all domains; improving HWRF vortex College Park, Director initialization scheme; upgrading Data MD 20741 Assimilation System; upgrading micro-physics process; upgrading GFDL radiation to RRTMG scheme with partial cloudiness; upgrading surface physics and PBL, momentum and enthalpy exchange Modify Geophysical Fluid NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Eval_Letter_gfd Morris Bender NOAA/OAR 609-452-6559 morris.bender 5/21/2015 6/2/2015 steven.ea National Centers Approved for Dynamics Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory l2015 Geophysical @noaa.gov rle@noaa for Operations - Laboratory (GFDL) (GFDL) hurricane model . Changes include: Fluid Dynamics .gov Environmental Effective hurricane model improving initialization of moisture field in the Laboratory Prediction 06/09/2015 v.13.0 vortex initializations; using improved moisture 201 Forrestal Director specification; new specification of storm size Road in the vortex initialization; correct specification Princeton, NJ of ocean currents in surface flux computation; 08540-6654 modifying criterion for large scale Modify Changes to the The NWS proposes that the Tropical Cyclone TCP_PDD John F. Kuhn NWS Marine & 301-427-9364 john.f.kuhn@n 3/2/2015 4/1/2015 john.f.kuh Analyze, Approved for Issuance of Public Advisory (TCP) always remain on a 3- (2).pdf Coastal oaa.gov n@noaa. Forecast and Operations - Tropical Cyclone hourly issuance cycle whenever Weather gov Support Office Effective Public Advisory watches/warnings are in effect or a tropical Services Branch Director 05/15/2015 cyclone is over land at tropical storm strength 1325 East West or greater. Elimination of the 2-hourly TCP Highway cycle would ensure NWS issues the TCP at Silver Spring, standard times during such an event. Under MD 20910 this proposal, the hourly flow of storm information would not be disrupted; Tropical Cyclone Updates (TCUs) would continue to be

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Modify Proposed Changes For the 2015 hurricane season, it is being PDD HLS John F. Kuhn NWS Marine & 301-427-9364 john.f.kuhn@n 10/20/2014 11/21/2014 http://ww Analyze, Approved for to the Hurricane proposed that Southern and Eastern Region Proposed Coastal oaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Operations - Local Statement WFOs having HLS responsibility will issue the Changes_rev.p Weather aa.gov/su Support Office Effective (HLS) HLS as a non-segmented product with no df Services Branch rvey/nws- Director 05/07/2015 VTEC for land areas only. A new WFO 1325 East West survey.ph product, “Hurricane Local Watch/Warning Highway p?code= Product”, is being proposed to issue tropical Silver Spring, HLSPCH cyclone watches and warnings for land areas. MD 20910 NG The Marine Weather Warning (MWW) product would be used for tropical cyclone watches and warnings for marine zones in a WFOs county warning area.

Modify Experimental The Beach Hazards Statement (BHS) is an PDD Beach Wayne NWS Marine & 301-427-9390 wayne.presnel 5/20/2013 12/31/2014 http://wea Analyze, Approved for Beach Hazards enhancement to the Coastal Hazards Hazards Presnell Coastal [email protected] ther.gov/s Forecast and Operations - Statement Message. A BHS informs beach goers and Statement Weather urvey/nws-Support Office Effective local authorities to a multitude of hazards 021014 Services Branch survey.ph Director 05/04/2015 including, but not limited to: rip currents (or 1325 East West p?code= other types of dangerous currents in the surf Highway CHMBHS zone), unusually cold water temperatures, Silver Spring, potential for lightning along the MD 20910 beach/shoreline, or unusual surf/wave conditions which do not meet advisory criteria. In coordination with other agencies (as needed), the product may also inform users of various types of environmental hazards (e.g. chemical spills, harmful algal blooms, high bacteria levels in the water, or potentially hazardous marine wildlife which may be impacting the area). Modify WSR-88D The Radar Operations Center will begin the tin14- http://www Jessica Radar 405-573-8808 jessica.a.schu 3/9/2015 4/30/2015 jessica.a. Office of Approved for Software Build 16 Beta Test and deployment of the Radar 42nexrad.htm .roc.noaa. Schultz Operations [email protected] schultz@ Observations Operations - Product Acquisition/Radar Product Generator gov/WSR Center noaa.gov Director Effective (RDA/RPG) Build 16.0 software and hardware 88D/New 1200 05/01/2015 upgrade. RadarTec Westheimer hnology/N Drive ewTechDe Norman, OK fault.aspx 73069

Modify Unrestricted NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Eval_Letter_rtm Geoff DiMego Environmental 301-683-3764 geoff.dimego 2/27/2015 3/31/2015 geoff.dim National Centers Approved for Mesoscale Unrestricted Mesoscale Analysis (URMA) and a2015q2 Modeling Center @noaa.gov ego@noa for Operations - Analysis (URMA) updates to the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis 5830 University a.gov Environmental Effective and Real-Time (RTMA). Changes include: changes to model Research Court Prediction 04/15/2015 Mesoscale components; addition of new product fields; College Park, Director Analysis (RTMA) and product output changes. MD 20741 Upgrades

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Modify NWWS-2 NOAA Weather Wire Service-2 (NWWS-2) is pns13nwws_ot Greg Zwicker NWWS 301-427-9682 gregory.zwick 9/13/2013 12/18/2013 gregory.z Office of Science Approved for Operational Test an NWS system that disseminates All e.htm Program [email protected] wicker@n and Technology Operations - Hazards emergency warnings to the public as 1325 East-West oaa.gov Director and Effective a future replacement of the existing NOAA Highway Office of 04/01/2015 Weather Wire Service. NWWS-2 is a Silver Spring, Operational modernized enterprise dissemination service MD 20910 Systems Director designed to gain operating efficiencies. During this Operational Test and Evaluation period, the existing NWWS operations will not be affected.

Modify Experimental Use NWS is expanding its mixed-case text Product pns13atan1096 Michael Szkil NWS 301-427-9325 michael.szkil 7/31/2013 6/30/2014 http://ww Analyze, Approved for of Mixed-Case Risk Reduction effort to include select riverpro.htm Awareness @noaa.gov w.weathe Forecast and Operations - Letters in Select RiverPro products issued by WFOs. Branch r.gov/surv Support Office Effective RiverPro products 1325 East-West ey/nws- Director 01/28/2015 Highway survey.ph Silver Spring, p?code= MD 20910 mixed- case

Modify Great Lakes Wave NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Great Eval_Letter_gl Hendrik Environmental 301-683-3739 hendrik.tolma 12/8/2015 1/13/2015 rebecca.c National Centers Approved for (GLW) System Lakes Wave (GLW) forecasting system. w2015 Tolman Modeling Center [email protected] osgrove for Operations - Upgrade Changes include: increased spatial grid 5830 University @noaa.g Environmental Effective resolution to 2.5km using a curvilinear Research Court ov Prediction 01/28/2015 Lambert conformal grid; increased spectral College Park, Director resolution to expand range to 1Hz; increased MD 20740 resolution of input wind fields from NAM smartinit; improved ice concentration analysis; and a switch to latest wave model version, WAVEWATCH III v4.15.1.

Modify Ozone Air Quality NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Community Eval_Letter_cm Ivanka NWS Office of 301-427-9103 ivanka.stajner 10/10/2014 1/12/2014 rebecca.c National Centers Approved for Prediction Update Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling aq2014 Strajner Science & @noaa.gov osgrove for Operations - system that provides ozone air quality Technology @noaa.g Environmental Effective predictions. The updated CMAQ model 1325 East West ov Prediction 01/27/2015 includes an updated carbon bond gas phase Highway, Silver Director (CB05) mechanism and additional updates. Spring, MD This update is for the contiguous 48 states 20910 (CONUS) domain. Silver Spring, MD 20910

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Modify Global Forecast NCEP is proposing an upgrade to the GFS Eval_Letter_gfs Mark Iredell Environmental 301-683-3739 mark.iredell@ 11/20/2014 12/23/2014 mark.ired National Centers Approved for Systems (GFS) Analysis and Forecast System, including: 2015 Modeling Center noaa.gov ell@noaa for Operations - Update changes to the model components; increases 5830 University .gov Environmental Effective in horizontal resolution; addition of 0.25 Research Court Prediction 01/14/2015 degree gridded output; new product fields; College Park, Director change of product naming convention; MD 20740 changes in product timeliness; and downstream model impacts.

Modify Hurricane and NCEP is proposing to upgrade the Hurricane Eval_Letter_wa Hendrik Environmental 301-683-3739 hendrik.tolma 11/14/2014 12/13/2014 hendrik.to National Centers Approved for Global Wave and Global wave models to WAVEWATCH III ve2014 Tolman Modeling Center [email protected] lman@no for Operations - Models Upgrade v4.15.1 and update the underlying grids. 5830 University aa.gov Environmental Effective Research Court Prediction 01/07/2015 College Park, Director MD 20740

Modify Extratropical Storm In this enhancement, the Extra-Tropical Storm Eval_Letter_ets Arthur Taylor NWS Office of 301-427-9444 arthur.taylor@ 8/7/2014 9/19/2014 arthur.tayl National Centers Approved for Surge (ETSS) Surge (ETSS) model will use 0.5 degree s2015q3 Science & noaa.gov or@noaa. for Operations - Model v.2.0 instead of 1 degree gridded wind input from Technology gov Environmental 05/19/2015 the Global Forecast System model. Integration Prediction Additionally, ETSS will use a corrected mask 1325 East-West Director for merging data over the Bering Sea. Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910 Silver Spring, MD 20910

Modify Experimental A select number of WFOs in NWS Southern FWF Text http://www Heath NWS Fire 208-334-9862 heath.hockenb 4/8/2014 7/1/2014 www.nws. Analyze, Approved for Enhanced Format Region will use an experimental Enhanced Format.pdf .wrh.noaa. Hockenberry Weather [email protected] noaa.gov/ Forecast and Operations - for Fire Weather Format for Fire Weather Planning Forecasts gov/total_f Program v survey/nw Support Office 05/14/2015 Planning Forecasts (FWF). Western Region WFOs are already orecast/ge 3833 S. s- Director using the format operationally. A couple tprod.php? Development survey.ph Southern WFOs also want to implement the wfo=rev&p Avenue p?code= format. The proposed change uses a left il=FWF&si Boise, Id 83705 EEFWF justified asterisk to begin each new line of d=REV&v text This format allows proper word wrapping ersion=0

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Modify Transition from NWS is proposing to transition from Ridge to scn09- http://www Robert Bunge Office of 301-427-9608 robert.bunge 3/4/2009 3/1/2010 robert.bu NWS Chief Approved for Ridge to Ridge Ridge version 2 radar displays 03aaa_ridge_ra .srh.noaa. Dissemination @noaa.gov nge@noa Information Operations - Version 2 Radar dar.txt gov/ridge2 1325 East-West a.gov Officer Effective Displays /ridgenew Highway 03/01/2011 2/ Silver Spring, MD 20910

Modify/Ne High-Resolution NCEP is proposing to upgrade the High- Eval_Letter_hir Matthew Pyle Environmental 301-683-3764 matthew.pyle 5/12/2015 8/25/2015 steven.ea National Centers Approved for w Window Forecast Resolution Window Forecast System (HIRES- esw2015q3 Modeling Center @noaa.gov rle@noaa for Operations - System (HIRES-W) W). Changes include: changes to model 5830 University .gov Environmental Effective Upgrade and components; increased in vertical resolution; Research Court Prediction 09/08/2015 Introduction of High-modified parameterized physics; new product College Park, Director Resolution fields; and file name changes. NCEP is also MD 20741 Ensemble Forecast introducing the High-Resolution Ensemble (HREF) Forecast (HREF), which is a baseline for a major piece of the future convective-allowing scale ensemble system. HREF consists of a set of probabilistic products generated from the three most recent HiresW runs and the five most recent NAM nest runs. In this initial implementation, products are generated only for the CONUS domain.

Modify/Ter Termination of The NASA Advanced Composition Explorer http://www.weat http://www Beth McNulty, OCWWS 301-713-1726 solar.wind.co 4/3/2006 5/18/2006 solar.win Office of pending minate Solar Wind Data (ACE) satellite was launched on August 25, her.gov/os/spac .weather.g Dorothy Aviation x116 mments@noa d.comme Climate, Water, and Changes to 1997, with a design life of 5 years. The e/ ov/os/spac Haldeman Services Branch a.gov nts@noa and Weather Associated satellite continues to provide real-time solar e/ 1325 East-West a.gov Services Director Products wind data, but some of the instruments have Highway, SSMC already ceased to operate or are showing 2 signs of degradation. At the current time there Silver Spring is no plan to replace ACE when the satellite or MD 20910 onboard instruments cease to function. This integrated service change plan is designed to alert users of the ACE data and associated products of changes in space weather products or service given the loss of data from the ACE satellite.

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Modify/Ter Proposed Change NCEP is proposing to display ONLY the latest pns14wpc_shor http://www Edwin Environmental 301-683-1494 edwin.danahe 7/11/2014 8/11/2014 edwin.da National Centers Approved for minate in the Display National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) t- .wpc.ncep. Danaher Modeling Center [email protected] naher@n for Operations - Options of the weather forecast for the weather portion of the range_charts.ht noaa.gov/ 5830 University oaa.gov Environmental Effective Short-Range short-range weather charts. This change m basicwx/b Research Court Prediction 09/01/2015 Weather Charts improves the detail of the product as well as asicwx_nd College Park, Director and Termination of the consistency between the NDFD and WPC fd.php MD 20740 Associated information. urrently, the weather portion of Redbook Graphics the short-term weather charts allows partners and users to select either Color, Black and White, Terrain Background or NDFD alternate displays. If the proposed change is implemented, the weather portion of the short- term weather charts will only display the NDFD graphic. Additionally, NWS will discontinue the legacy AWIPS Redbook Graphic format of the short range weather product and show the NDFD web display.

New Experimental The web based TRACON Forecast provides tracon_ER.pdf http://www Fred NWS Eastern 631-244-0125 Fred.mcmulle 8/10/2009 2/29/2012 Fred.mcm Eastern Region pending - No TRACON categorical convective guidance for specific .erh.noaa. McMullen Region HQ [email protected] ullen@no Director action will be Forecasts locations in the National gov/zny/zn c/o Fred aa.gov taken to make Airspace System (NAS) allowing for more y_tracon.p McMullen this operational; accurate air traffic management. hp 630 Johnson National version Ave, Suite 202 under Bohemia, NY development 11716

New Ridge Image and The National Weather Service Southern KML_PDD_Nati http://www Robert Bunge 1325 E-W 301-713-1381 robert.bunge 8/30/2006 http://ww NWS Chief pending Warning Output to Region and National Weather Service Office onal.pdf .srh.noaa. Highway, x140 @noaa.gov w.weathe Information KML/KMZ in El Paso, TX, has developed a method to gov/ridge/ SSMC2 Silver r.gov/surv Officer display the latest RIDGE radar and polygon kmzgener Spring, MD ey/nws- warning images through a language called ator.php 20910 survey.ph KML/KMZ for display in GIS. p?code=k ml

New Weather, Water, The purpose of the Podcasts is to provide podcasts_2010. http://www Michael Szkil NWS 301-427-9325 michael.szkil 4/1/2010 12/31/2010 michael.s Office of pending and Climate Internet access to audio files of weather, pdf .erh.noaa. Awareness @noaa.gov zkil@noa Climate, Water, Information water, and climate information. In addition, gov/lwx/po Branch a.gov and Weather Podcasts, Update Podcasts serve as a way to introduce people dcasts/ 1325 East-West Services Director 1 to NWR. This Internet accessibility to specific Highway broadcasts expands and enhances the service Silver Spring, provided by the agency. MD 20910

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New Experimental MDSS (iNWS) will provide weather warnings MDSS_Nationa https://inw Andy Edman NWS Western 801-524-5131 andy.edman@ 8/30/2010 6/30/2011 http://ww Office of pending Mobile Decision and alerts via short message service (SMS) l_SDD_Final_0 s.wrh.noa Region HQ noaa.gov w.weathe Climate, Water, Support text messaging and email services to enhance 70710.pdf a.gov/ 125 S. State r.gov/surv and Weather Services(MDSS) communications between the NWS and its St.Room ey/nws- Services Director Interactive NWS core partners during high impact weather 1311Salt Lake survey.ph (iNWS) events. City, UT 84138- p?code= 1102 mama

New Additional Alaska High resolution imagery from the Suomi http://weather.g Brian Gockel NWS/OST 301-713-0304 brian.gockel@ 9/28/2012 12/31/2012 brian.goc Office of Science pending Region Satellite Natinal Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite will ov/infoservicec 1325 East-West x 158 noaa.gov kel@noa and Technology imagery be provided on the NOAAPORT SBN. hanges/tin12- Hwy a.gov Director Addition will consist of NPP Visible Infrared 45viirsaaa.htm Silver Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIRRS) imagery Spring,MD covering the Alaska Region 20910

New Experimental To support NWS’ Weather-Ready Nation hazsimp_pdd.p http://nws. Andy Horvitz NWS/AFSO 301-427-9357 andy.horvitz@ 12/11/2012 3/31/2013 hazsimp Office of pending Simplified Format initiative, NWS is requesting feedback on df weather.g 1325 East West noaa.gov @noaa.g Climate, Water, for NWS Winter proposed alternative headline language that ov/haz_si Highway ov and Weather Hazards Messages could be used in place of that used for current mp/ Silver Spring, Services Director hazardous weather messages via a MD 20910 demonstration this winter.

New Alaska Region The most recent experimental digital datasets AK_Experiment http://www Jeffrey NWS Alaska 907-271- jeffrey.osiensk 8/11/2011 8/31/2013 http://ww Alaska Region pending NDFD Grids, (and associated graphic forecast displays) alPDD_011720 .weather.g Osiensky Region HQ 51232 [email protected] w.weathe Director Update 3 integrated into NDFD are the following 13.pdf ov/forecas 222 West 7th r.gov/surv elements for Alaska: Maximum Temperature, ts/graphic Ave., #23, ey/nws- Minimum Temperature, 12-hour Probability of al/sectors/ Room 517 survey.ph Precipitation, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, aktrimmed Anchorage, AK p?code=e Significant Wave Height, Hazards, Weather, .php 99513-7575 gf Temperature, Dew Point, Wind Gust, Sky New Experimental Long A national scale map with drill down Experimenta_L http://wate Roham Abtahi NWS Office of 301-713-0006 roham.abtahi 3/18/2013 8/31/2013 http://ww Office of pending Range River Flood capabilities on AHPS which routinely displays ong_Range_Flo r.weather. Climate, Water x150 @noaa.gov w.nws.no Climate, Water, Outlook the long range (3-month) risk of minor, od_Risk_NatW gov/ahps/l & Weather aa.gov/su and Weather moderate and major river flooding for ebpage.pdf ong_range Services rvey/nws- Services Director locations where probabilistic forecasts are .php 1325 East-West survey.ph produced. Highway Silver p?code=lr Spring MD o New Experimental NHC NHC has entered into an agreement with EXP NHC http://www Dennis National 305-229-4404 nhc.public.affa 7/2/2013 11/30/2013 http://ww National Centers pending Media Briefings: Weather Decision Technologies (WDT), Inc. Videocast .nhc.noaa. Feltgen Hurricane [email protected] w.weathe for Videocasts, Update to provide IP-based audio and video Briefings2013.p gov/about Center r.gov/surv Environmental 1 streaming of it's hourly hurricane briefings. df videocast. 11691 SW 17th ey/nws- Prediction The URL to the briefings will be posted on the shtml Street survey.ph Director NHC Web site when the media pool is Miami, FL p?code=n activated. 33165 hcvid

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New Experimental The EDD is a multi-purpose web-based, cross- EDD_PDD_07_ http://previ Jonathan WFO 304-746-0188 jonathan.wolfe 8/20/2013 2/23/2014 http://ww Office of pending Enhanced Data platform GIS system that provides our 9_13.pdf ew.weathe Wolfe Charleston @noaa.gov w.nws.no Climate, Water, Display (EDD) partners and customers with a single r.gov/edd 400 Parkway aa.gov/su and Weather comprehensive web-based interface to access Drive rvey/nws- Services Director both forecasts and observations of any nature Charleston, WV survey.ph (public, fire, marine, aviation, hydrologic, 25309 p?code= climate, etc.). EDD puts this information in one EDD place making it very easy to display and manipulate this data. New Experimental User The User Defined Area Forecast (UDAF) is an EXP_User_defi http://www Kim Runk NWS Central 816-268-3140 kim.runk@noa 7/15/2013 7/15/2014 www.nws. Office of pending Defined Are Internet-accessible application which allows ned_Area_Fcst. .nws.noaa. Region a.gov noaa.gov/ Climate, Water, Forecast (UDAF) direct interactionwith the full resolution (2.5km pdf gov/wtf/ud Integrated survey/nw and Weather Point-and-Click horizontal grid spacing) NWS netCDF forecast af/area/ Services s- Services Director Web Application, data base to obtain forecast information within Division 7220 survey.ph CONUS Only a geographic area specified by the user. The NW 101st p?code= interface allows an individual to define Terrace Kansas UDAF geographical boundaries in both area and City, MO 64153 elevation (in CONUS only), and submit those values to retrieve a forecast directly from the digital forecast data base populated by NWS meteorologists at local WFOs responsible for that user-defined polygon.

New Experimental The National Marine Weather Web Portal is MarineWebPort http://previ David Soroka 1325 East-West (301) 713- David.Soroka 8/3/2013 7/31/2014 http://ww Office of pending National Marine an experimental effort designed to provide a al_PDD_03081 ew.weathe Highway Silver 1677 x111 @noaa.gov w.nws.no Climate, Water, Weather Web seamless suite of information to the marine 3.pdf r.gov/mwp Spring, MD aa.gov/su and Weather Portal, Update 1 community. This new portal displays hazards, / 2091 rvey/web- Services Director forecasts, observations and many other data survey.ph layers useful for briefing mariners, coastal p?code= managers, emergency managers and first ENMWP responders on current and future marine weather. New Experimental This service enhancement adds the PDD_Experime http://forec John S. Eise NWS Central 816-268-3144 john.eise@no 11/4/2013 8/21/2014 http://ww Central Region pending Probability of probability of exceedance for specific rainfall ntal_Probability ast.weathe Region HQ aa.gov w.weathe Director Exceedance amount thresholds (0.10, 0.25, 0.50 and 1.00 _of_Exceedanc r.gov/Map 7720 NW 101st r.gov/surv Forecast for inch) and snowfall amount thresholds (0.1, 1, e-Extension-2 Click.php? Terrace ey/nws- Precipitation and 3, 6 and 12 inches) to the list of selectable (3).pdf site=eax& Kansas City, survey.ph Snowfall, Update 1 elements for display by the user. zmx=1&z MO 64153 p?code=p my=1&ma efps p.x=127& map.y=14 8&FcstTyp New Experimental FRET is the expected depth of water (in FRET_PDD.pdf hi Dan NWS OS 301-713-0624 dan.matusiewi 11/5/2014 12/5/2014 www.nws. Office of pending Forecast hundredths of inches) that would evaporate Matusiewicz W/OS31 x164 [email protected] noaa.gov/ Climate, Water, Reference and transpire from a reference crop under the 1325 East-West survey/nw and Weather Evapotranspiration forecast weather conditions on a daily and Highway s- Services Director (FRET) for Short weekly basis over the next 7 days. The FRET Silver Spring, survey.ph Canopy is for short crops with an approximate height MD 20910 p?code=F Vegetation, Update of 12 cm similar to full cover grasses. Daily RETSCV 1 FRET grids for the next 7 days, total FRET grids for the 7-day period, FRET departure from normal grids, and climatology grids for reference evapotranspiration are available via a web page interface for the nation via the NDFD. The FRET was originally tested within the NWS Central and Western Regions. It is now being tested for national implementation.

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New Experimental The experimental CDM Convective Forecast eCCFP_PDD.p Michael Pat Aviation 816-584-7239 michael.pat.m 12/1/2014 2/28/2015 www.nws. Office of pending Collaborative Planning (CCFP) guidance is a graphical df Murphy Weather Center urphy@noaa. noaa.gov/ Climate, Water, Decision Making representation of convection meeting specific 7220 NW 101st gov survey/nw and Weather (CDM) Convective criteria of coverage, intensity, echo height, Terrace s- Services Director Forecast Planning and forecaster confidence. The CCFP Kansas City, survey.ph (CCFP) Guidance guidance graphics are produced every 2 hours MO 64154 p?code= and valid at 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-hours after CCFPG issuance time, and will be automatically produced from the NOAA SREF, HRRR, HIRES ARW models, but will share the same format and be disseminated exactly as the human-produced CCFP.

New Experimental Proposal for an experimental service to Updated Michelle D. 1325 East West 301-713-1970 michelle.Hawk 4/18/2013 4/1/2015 http://ww Office of pending Provision of disseminate credible, relevant and timely SDD_Joint Hawkins Highway Silver ext. 134 [email protected] w.nws.no Climate, Water, Supplemental public safety information from other Msging.pdf Spring, MD aa.gov/su and Weather Public Safety government agencies before, during and after 20910 rvey/nws- Services Director Information Before, high impact weather, water and climate events survey.ph During and After through NWS SPS or PNS products. p?code= High Impact NWSSPS Weather Events I New Experimental RFC NWS River Forecast Center (RFC) Decision SRRFCFrontPa http://www Tracy Clark NWS Southern 817-978-1100 tracy.clark@n 8/1/2012 4/1/2015 http://ww Southern Region pending Decision Support Support Map would consists of a geSDDExtensio .srh.noaa. Region HQ x120 oaa.gov w.nws.no Director Map Google Earth map with a variety of existing nV4.pdf gov/rfcexp 819 Taylor aa.gov/su RFC products available as overlays on this / Street, Room rvey/nws- map. The map provides the user with the 10E09 survey.ph flexibility to create a customized map Fort Worth, TX p?code= focusing on information they need to make 76102 RFCDSM decisions.

New Experimental NWS is seeking public comment and review PDD_SnowPro Richard NWS Eastern 631-244-0123 Richard.Watli 12/1/2014 4/30/2015 www.nws. Office of pending Probabilistic Storm on experimental probabilistic snowfall bs Nov 20 Watling Region HQ [email protected] noaa.gov/ Climate, Water, Total Snow forecasts to be issued ahead of anticipated 2014.pdf 630 Johnson survey/nw and Weather Graphical winter storms. These experimental graphical Ave. s- Services Director Products, Update 1 and tabular products will show partners three Bohemia, NY survey.ph categories: least, most likely and largest snow 11716-2618 p?code= amounts a storm is likely to produce. Narrow PSTSP ranges of snow indicate high forecast confidence while large ranges mean less forecast certainty. The testing of this product was originally limited to WFO Baltimore/Washington. It has been expanded to four more WFOs in NWS Eastern Region.

New Experimental The experimental Model Spectrum Webpage National Exp http://www Jonathan WFO 304-746-0180 jonathan.wolfe 3/19/2014 7/31/2015 http://ww Office of pending Model Spectrum originally developed at WFO Portland, OR, Model .preview.w Wolfe Charleston @noaa.gov w.nws.no Climate, Water, Webpage, Update displays a “box and whisker” plot time series Spectrum eather.gov 400 Parkway aa.gov/su and Weather 1 of statistical data summarizing the output from PDD.pdf /edd Drive rvey/nws- Services Director multiple numerical weather model forecasts in Charleston, WV survey.ph addition to the NWS forecast. The scope has 25309 p?code= been expanded to include a Model Spectrum NPQRMS for all WFOs. Page 15 of 26 NWS Database of Information Service Changes 10/21/2015

New Experimental The Emergency Response Tool (ERTool) is a PDD-ERTool- http://inno Kenneth WFO New 985-649-0357 Kenneth.Grah 8/8/2013 7/31/2015 http://ww Southern Region pending Emergency website designed for mobile devices that June2014 (1) vation.srh. Graham Orleans/Baton x222 [email protected] w.nws.no Director Response Tool serves as a one-stop collection of the most noaa.gov/ Rouge v aa.gov/su popular NWS web pages. Designed for ertool/ 62300 Airport rvey/nws- emergency managers and first responders, Rd. Slidell, LA survey.ph ERTool would bring our most popular services 70460-5243 p?code= into easily accessible buttons that would allow NWSERT the end user to access the data they need in no more than three clicks.

New Experimental The NWS Fort Worth CWSU and WFO PDD- Corey Pieper NWS Southern 817-978-1100 Corey.Pieper 9/26/2013 7/31/2015 www.nws. Southern Region pending Customizable Dallas/Fort Worth are testing a new MapsWidgetMo Region HQ x122 @noaa.gov noaa.gov/ Director Mapping Widget Customizable Mapping Widget and Mobile bile_June2014. 819 Taylor survey/nw and Mobile Web Web Page service. The service brings pdf Street, Room s- Page together a variety of geospatial data products 10E09 survey.ph on the same background map for analysis and Fort Worth, TX p?code= decision making. 76102 MAPAPI WS

New Experimental The NWS is testing a new widget and PDD- http://inno Corey Pieper NWS Southern 817-978-1100 Corey.Pieper 10/24/2014 8/22/2015 www.nws. Office of pending Adaptable NWS adaptable web page service. The service AdaptableNWS vation.srh. Region HQ x122 @noaa.gov noaa.gov/ Climate, Water, Forecast/Warning/ brings together NWS forecast and warning ForecastObserv noaa.gov/ 819 Taylor survey/nw and Weather Observation data in a package that allows web developers ationWidget.pdf NWSwidg Street, Room s- Services Director Widget and Web to embed NWS information in their pages et/about.p 10E09 survey.ph Page, Update 1 quickly and easily as a widget. In addition, the hp Fort Worth, TX p?code=f same code, when viewed in any web browser 76102 wooww on any device (e.g., smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers), will adapt to the screen’s size appropriately. This was originally tested in the NWS Southern Region It is now being New Experimental Point forecast for 13 locations along the PDD_TampaBa http://www Todd Barron WFO Tampa 813-645-4111 todd.barron@ 11/4/2013 8/25/2015 http://ww Southern Region pending Tampa Bay Tampa Bay channel designed to aid local yMarineChanne .srh.noaa. Bay x331 noaa.gov w.nws.no Director Navigation Safety mariners including emergency managers, lsForecast.pdf gov/tbw/?n 2525 14th Ave aa.gov/su Forecast, Update 1 United States Coast Guard, researchers =marinech SE Ruskin, FL rvey/nws- (NOAA, universities, Florida Fish and annelsfore 33511 survey.ph Wildlife), Tampa Bay Harbor Pilots, towing or cast p?code=T tug boat operators, recreational boaters, and BMCF any customer or partner with interest in the respective environmental data for Tampa Bay. A static Google Earth map displays the shipping channel in Tampa Bay along with 13 forecast points. Digital and high resolution model forecast data are used to produce the forecast for all points. Users may click on any point to view the latest information.

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New Experimental SPC The SPC Probabilistic Day 3-8 Fire Weather spc_day38fire_ http://www Russ Storm Prediction 405-325-2066 russell.schnei 11/20/2014 9/29/2015 http://ww Office of pending Probabilistic Day 3- Outlooks provide a daily probabilistic forecast prob_pdd_2014 .spc.noaa. Schneider Center [email protected] w.nws.no Climate, Water, 8 Fire Weather of critical fire weather conditions for dry .pdf gov/produ 120 David L. v aa.gov/su and Weather Outlooks, Update 2 thunderstorms and/or strong winds combined cts/exper/f Boren Blvd rvey/nws- Services Director with low relative humidity for the continental ire_wx/ Norman, OK survey.ph U.S. 73073 p?code=s pc38firew x

New Experimental The Open Lake Forecast (GLF) is a text PDD Maximum http://forec Brian Hirsch NWS Central 816-268-3149 brian.hirsch@ 12/1/2013 9/30/2015 www.nws. Analyze, pending Maximum Wave product issued by five primary Great Lakes Wave Height in ast.weathe Region HQ noaa.gov noaa.gov/ Forecast and Height in Great Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) to state GLF r.gov/prod 7720 NW 101st survey/nw Support Office Lakes Open Lake expected weather conditions within their 112513.pdf uct.php?sit Terrace s- Director Forecast (GLF) marine forecast area of responsibility through e=dtx&pro Kansas City, survey.ph Day 5. duct=glf&i MO 64153 p?code= ssuedby=l EMWHG h LF

New Experimental The Nearshore Wave Prediction System PDD NWPS http://inno Richard May NWS Marine & 301-427-9378 Richard.May 6/30/2013 9/30/2015 http://ww Analyze, pending Nearshore Wave (NWPS) wave model is run locally and used Model Output vation.srh. Coastal @noaa.gov w.weathe Forecast and Prediction System operationally at many coastal WFOs. NWPS 110314 noaa.gov/ Weather r.gov/surv Support Office (NWPS) Model output products include displays of winds, clean.pdf swan/ http: Services Branch ey/nws- Director Output significant wave height and peak wave //www.srh. 1325 East West survey.ph direction, and other wind, wave, and ocean noaa.gov/ Highway p?code= parameters. This high-resolution model can mfl/?n=sw Silver Spring, SWNMO be used for operational forecasting and an MD 20910 research. The NWPS output is used as guidance to produce marine forecasts at the coastal WFOs. The web pages are a convenient way for local users to view the same data as the local forecaster New Experimental This is an enhancement to the Coastal Waters PDD_Rayleigh http://www Melinda Bailey NWS Southern 817-978-1100 melinda.bailey 9/17/2014 9/30/2015 www.nws. Southern Region pending Rayleigh Forecast product at WFO Miami with the Distribution for .srh.noaa. Region HQ x109 @noaa.gov noaa.gov/ Director Distribution in the inclusion of additional wave height fields by CWFAugust201 gov/mfl 819 Taylor survey/nw NWS Coastal implementing the theoretical Rayleigh 4v2.pdf Street s- Waters Forecast Distribution. The product is going to be tested Fort Worth, TX survey.ph Product, Update 2 at additional WFOs in NWS Southern Region. 76102-6171 p?code= SRERD

New Experimental Gate Arrival and departure sectors for major GateForecast_ http://new. Rebecca Aviation 816-584-7262 rebecca.waddi 8/31/2015 9/30/2015 www.nws. Analyze, pending Forecast airports, also called gates, are polygonal PDD_Exp.pdf aviationwe Waddington Weather Center ngton@noaa. noaa.gov/ Forecast and regions which roughly follow Air Route Traffic ather.gov/t 7220 NW 101St gov survey/nw Support Office Control Center (ARTCC) low-level sectors rafficflowm Terrace s- Director where arrivals and departures to these gmt/gate Kansas City, survey.ph airports will be routed. It is important to know MO 64153-2371 p?code= whether significant weather, such as GATE thunderstorms, could affect large portions of the sectors so that traffic can be rerouted, if needed to other sectors The Gate Forecast

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New Experimental The experimental Experimental Gerling- PDD Gerling Troy Nicolini WFO Eureka 707-443-0574 troy.nicolini@ 11/18/2014 10/15/2015 http://ww Office of pending Gerling-Hanson Hanson Wind Wave Plots are graphical vector Hanson Plots 300 Startare noaa.gov w.nws.no Climate, Water, Wind Wave Plots, plots of predefined point guidance for up to six 101014.pdf Drive aa.gov/su and Weather Update 1 wave trains (direction, height, and period), and Eureka, CA rvey/nws- Services Director wind (direction, speed) through a five day 95501 survey.ph period at six hourly increments. Users can p?code= use the Gerling-Hanson Plots to quickly HPGT assess the wind and sea conditions out to 5 days. This was originally developed by WFO Eureka for regional-level testing. It is now being tested for national implementation.

New Experimental The Collaborative Aviation Weather CAWS_PDD.pd https://ww Kevin Stone NWS Aviation 301-427-9363 kevin.stone@ 3/3/2015 10/31/2015 http://ww Analyze, pending Collaborative Statement (CAWS) is a product collaborated f w.aviation Services Branch noaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Aviation Weather by NWS meteorologists, airline weather.g 1325 East-West aa.gov/su Support Office Statement (CAWS) meteorologists, and other airline and FAA ov/caws Highway rvey/nws- Director personnel. The CAWS focuses on specific, Silver Spring, survey.ph convective forecasts impacting the Core 29 MD 20910 p?code= airports and high traffic en-route corridors. CAWS The focus is event-driven, supporting the ability to more effectively initiate, adjust, or terminate planned or active Traffic Management Initiatives (TMI) to balance traffic demand in the constraint locations.

New Experimental The Potential Storm Surge Flooding Map is an PotentialStorm http://www John F. Kuhn NWS Marine & 301-427-9364 john.f.kuhn@n 5/23/2014 11/30/2015 http://ww Analyze, pending Potential Storm experimental product that provides valuable SurgeFlooding .nhc.noaa. Coastal oaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Surge Flooding information on potential storm surge flooding Map_PDD.pdf gov/experi Weather aa.gov/su Support Office Map for areas along the Gulf and East Coast at risk mental/inu Services Branch rvey/nws- Director from storm surge during a tropical cyclone ndation 1325 East West survey.ph event. Highway p?code=T Silver Spring, CTEND MD 20910

New Experimental This experimental webpage provides event- PDD TC http://www Hugh Cobb National 305-229-4455 hugh.cobb@n 8/1/2014 11/30/2015 http://ww Analyze, pending NHC/TAFB driven satellite-based quantitative Satellite .nhc.noaa. Hurricane oaa.gov w.weathe Forecast and Satellite Rainfall precipitation estimates (QPE) and model- Rainfall gov/experi Center r.gov/surv Support Office QPE and QPF derived quantitative precipitation forecasts Graphic mental/rai 11691 SW 17th ey/nws- Director Webpage (QPF) for tropical cyclones and tropical Experimental_A nfall Street survey.ph (graphical product disturbances affecting areas within the NHC pril_2015-1.pdf Miami, FL p?code=s portion) and CPHC areas of responsibility. This entry 33166 rqpf is for the graphical product portion of the webpage. New Experimental Wind The Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch PDD TC http://www Hugh Cobb National 305-229-4454 hugh.cobb@n 5/14/2014 11/30/2015 http://ww Analyze, pending Speed Probabilities-(TAFB) is providing on an experimental basis Danger .nhc.noaa. Hurricane oaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and based Tropical a Tropical Cyclone Danger Area graphic Graphic_2015 gov/marin Center aa.gov/su Support Office Cyclone Danger based on the 34-kt wind speed probabilities (1).pdf e/#graphic 11691 SW 17th rvey/nws- Director Graphic, Update 2 through 72-hr from the latest tropical cyclone al Street survey.ph advisory for an active tropical cyclone. In Miami, FL p?code=T response to user feedback, the 2014 graphic 33165 CDWBP will outline avoidance areas using the 5% and 50% 34-kt wind speed probability contours from the latest tropical cyclone advisory issuances for both the Atlantic and East Pacific basins.

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New Experimental NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) PDD_BRO_Sp Barry WFO 956-504-1432 barry.goldsmit 6/1/2014 11/30/2015 www.nws. Southern Region pending Spanish Language Brownsville has developed a text formatter anishHLS2015 Goldsmith Brownsville [email protected] noaa.gov/ Director Hurricane Local that generates a Hurricane Local Statement (2) 20 S. Vermillion survey/nw Statement (HLS) using Spanish language, in a manner Dr. s- identical to the process that creates the Brownsville, TX survey.ph English language HLS. This product is 78521 p?code= designed to convey critical warning SLHLS information in tropical cyclone events to a significantly large population in the Brownsville CWA that speaks English as a second language, or not at all. New Experimental The Experimental Hurricane Threats and HTI-Web.pdf http://previ Mike Dion NWS Marine & 301-427-9373 michael.dion 8/17/2015 11/30/2015 http://ww Analyze, pending Hurricane Threats Impacts Web Interface (HTI-Web) is an ew.weathe Coastal @noaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and and Impacts Web internet-based decision-support service r.gov/hti Weather aa.gov/su Support Office Interface (HTI- designed to help users quickly interface with Services Branch rvey/nws- Director Web) local hazard information whenever tropical 1325 East West survey.ph storm or hurricane watches and/or warnings Highway p?code= are in effect along the East and Gulf coasts, Silver Spring, HTIWI including Puerto Rico. Local threat MD 20910 assessments and corresponding potential impacts information about tropical storm or hurricane wind, storm surge, flooding rain, and tornadoes are provided by coastal WFOs. The New Experimental A graphicb idepicting b d the warning ffi i l tarea, i storm l t PDD_SVRgrap http://www Kevin 1325 East West 301-427-6910 Kevin.Scharfe 6/9/2015 2/9/2016 http://ww Analyze, pending Severe Weather information, and societal impact statistics will hics_final.pdf .weather.g Scharfenberg HighwaySilver nberg@noaa. w.nws.no Forecast and Impact Graphics, be automatically produced upon the initial ov/crh/imp Spring, MD gov aa.gov/su Support Office CONUS only, issuance of, and subsequent updates to, each act 20910 rvey/nws- Director Update 1 NWS text short-fuse warning product survey.ph (Tornado Warning, Severe Thunderstorm p?code= Warning, and Flash Flood Warning) in EGSFWK CONUS and will be removed from the web S service when associated text warning expires. NWS will produce a new graphic for each subsequent Severe Weather Statement or Flash Flood Statement associated with the original warnings The graphics also will be New Experimental NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) Corpus PDD_CRP_Gra http://www Mike WFO Corpus 361-299-1354 mike.buchana 2/5/2014 3/31/2016 www.nws. Analyze, pending Graphical Weather Christi issues daily LCO, RTP, and RRM text phicalWeather .srh.noaa. Buchanan Christi x224 [email protected] noaa.gov/ Forecast and Review Webpage products for users. This local data is merged ReviewMarch2 gov/crp/gr 26 Pinson Drive, survey/nw Support Office with the national AHPS rainfall data to 015.pdf aphicalwe Corpus Christi, s- Director produce PNG and KMZ files of daily high ather.php TX 78406 survey.ph temperatures, daily low temperatures, and p?code= daily rainfall for WFO Corpus Christi's County GWRWC Warning Area. The ability to retrieve past RP PNG and KMZ files exists within the web interface. New Experimental Wind A compression decision support graphic will PDD_Compres http://www Thomas Amis CWSU Ft. 817-858-7523 thomas.amis 1/1/2014 3/31/2016 http://ww Analyze, pending Compression be posted to the Ft. Worth CWSU's web sion Mar 2015 .srh.noaa. Worth @noaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Decision Support portal. Aircraft traffic compression occurs (1) gov/image 13800 FAA Rd. aa.gov/su Support Office Graphic when aircraft flying Standard Terminal s/rtimages Fort Worth, TX rvey/nws- Director Arrivals, following onebehind the other, lose /zfw/DFW 76155 survey.ph adequate horizontal separation from each _Compres p?code= other. The conditions that create this situation sion.png WCDSG are usually a rapid change in wind direction and speed with respect to altitude and between the two aircraft.

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New Experimental Day The Day 4-7 Winter Weather Outlook is a WPC_WinWx_ http://www David Weather 301-683-1484 david.novak@ 12/1/2015 3/31/2016 david.nov Analyze, pending 4-7 Winter graphical probabilistic forecast depicting the PDD.pdf .wpc.ncep. Novak Prediction noaa.gov ak@noaa Forecast and Weather Outlook probability of winter precipitation (snow/sleet) noaa.gov/ Center .gov Support Office exceeding 0.25 inches (~6 mm) water wwd/pwpf 5830 University Director equivalent over a 24-hour period. The product _d47/pwpf Research Court is comprised of 4 graphics showing the _medr.php College Park, forecast for Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, and Day 7. MD 20740 The outlook is prepared twice daily by WPC medium range forecasters.

New Experimental Four WFOs in NWS Central Region will PDD.pdf http://www Andy Bailey WFO Kansas 816-540-6021 andy.bailey@ 6/4/2015 6/1/2016 www.nws. Central Region pending Situation Report, produce a daily PDF document containing the .weather.g City noaa.gov noaa.gov/ Director Update 1 traditional hazardous weather outlook text ov/eax/sitr 1803 North 7 survey/nw along with additional descriptive graphics, ep Hwy s- hyperlinks, and other dynamic content. The Pleasant Hill, survey.ph products will apply to most of Missouri, and MO 64080 p?code= parts of eastern Kansas and western Illinois. SITREPO The legacy Hazardous Weather Outlook will RT continue to be produced three times per day and will contain a hyperlink to the Experimental Situation Report.

New Experimental The Graphical Wind Against Current product PDD Wind http://www Joseph Ocean 301-683-1495 joseph.sienkie 4/16/2015 6/30/2016 http://ww Analyze, pending Graphical Wind is a graphical depiction of the maximum 24- Against Current .opc.ncep. Sienkiewicz Prediction [email protected] w.nws.no Forecast and Against Current hour wind component from the NWS Global 2015.CJ.pdf noaa.gov/ Center ov aa.gov/su Support Office Forecast System that opposes the surface Loops/Win 5830 University rvey/nws- Director current of the Gulf Stream system as defined dCurrent_ Research Court survey.ph by the U.S. Navy High Resolution Coastal ncomhires College Park, p?code= Ocean Model (NCOM). _00Z/inde MD 20740 EGWAC x.php

New Experimental WFO Medford, OR, is testing Experimental PDD Marine http://digit John Love WFO Medford 541-776-4303 john.lovegrov 8/10/2015 6/30/2016 https://ww Analyze, pending Impact-Based Impact-Based Marine Hazard Grids (IBH). IBH IBH_MFR.pdf al.weather grove 4003 Cirrus x222 [email protected] w.nws.no Forecast and Marine Hazard provides the marine community with a .gov/ Drive aa.gov/su Support Office Grids detailed depiction of expected adverse (Select Medford, OR rvey/nws- Director weather conditions. Unlike zone-based "Hazards" 97504 survey.ph hazards, the IBH also show parts of zones from the p?code=I where no hazard is expected, which allows for drop down BMHG continued marine operations. The details, menu) combined with the separation of hazards, allow mariners to make informed decisions based upon their vessel capabilities and personal level of skill.

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New Experimental The NHC Tropical Analysis and Forecast PDD OFF HSF http://www Richard May NWS Marine & 301-427-9378 Richard.May 3/20/2013 7/31/2016 http://ww Analyze, pending Gridded Marine Branch (TAFB), the Ocean Prediction Center Grids 2015.pdf .nhc.noaa. Coastal @noaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Offshore and High (OPC) and WFO Honolulu will provide gridded gov/marin Weather aa.gov/su Support Office Seas Forecasts in forecasts of four marine weather elements to e/grids.ph Services Branch rvey/nws- Director the NDFD the NDFD on an experimental basis for their p 1325 East West survey.ph offshore waters and high seas forecast areas Highway p?code= of responsibility for the Atlantic and Pacific Silver Spring, EGOSW basins. The WFOs in Fairbanks, Anchorage MD 20910 HSMF and Juneau Alaska will continue to supply on an experimental basis to the NDFD gridded forecasts of five marine weather elements over their offshore waters in the Arctic basin.

New Experimental The Climate Prediction Center issues PDD_CPC_We http://www Jon Climate 301-683-3449 jon.gottschalc 9/10/2015 9/18/2016 http://ww Analyze, pending Week 3-4 temperature and precipitation outlooks for the ek3- .cpc.ncep. Gottschalck Prediction [email protected] w.nws.no Forecast and Temperature and Week 2 and 1-month outlook periods. At the 4%20Outlooks. noaa.gov/ Center aa.gov/su Support Office Precipitation current time, no products exist for the pdf products/p 5830 University rvey/nws- Director Outlook intermediate time scale (i.e., Weeks 3-4) redictions/ Research Court survey.ph between these two forecast time horizons. WK34/ind College Park, p?code= This change would close this gap in the NWS ex.php MD 20740 EW34TP suite of outlooks. The objective of the product O is to highlight regions where above or below average 2-week mean temperature and total precipitation are favored, as well as provide advance notice of potential temperature and precipitation pattern changes to further assist decision makers in weather and climate sensitive activities in their decisions.

New Experimental The EHWO is a decision support service that SGF_ http://www John Ferree NWS Severe, 405-325-2209 john.t.ferree@ 6/2/2015 9/30/2105 http://ww Analyze, pending Enhanced supports preparedness and response efforts EHWO_PDD_fi .weather.g Fire, Public and noaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Hazardous prior to and during hazardous weather. In nal.pdf ov/sgf/ehw Winter Weather aa.gov/su Support Office Weather Outlook conjunction with the textual HWO, the clear o Services Branch rvey/nws- Director (EHWO), Update 1 and concise Internet-based EHWO graphics 120 David L. survey.ph provides decision makers with convenient Boren Blvd., p?code=e access to potential weather hazard Norman, OK hhwo information by graphically depicting the risk of 73072 multiple weather hazards out to seven days in New Experimental The Sperry-Piltz Ice Accumulation (SPIA) PDD- http://www Steven Piltz WFO Tulsa 918-832-4115 Steven.Piltz@ 10/1/2014 4/15/2015 http://ww Central Region Discontinued - Sperry-Piltz Ice Index was developed to provide decision SPIA_Novembe .srh.noaa. 10159 East 11th x222 noaa.gov w.nws.no Director and Effective Accumulation support to emergency management officials, r2014.pdf gov/tsa/?n St., Suite 300 aa.gov/su Southern Region 10/30/2015 (SPIA) Index utility companies and the public during the =badice Tulsa, OK rvey/nws- Director hours and days leading up to an ice storm. 74128 survey.ph The index quantifies the potential for electrical p?code= interruptions, and thereby gives more tangible SPISA information to the public concerning the extent of preparations thought necessary.

New Experimental A single graphic, issued by a WFO (CONUS PDD_SVRgrap http://www Kevin 1325 East West (301) 427- Kevin.Scharfe 7/1/2014 12/11/2014 http://ww Analyze, Discontinued - Severe Weather only), depicting the warning area, storm hics_final.pdf .crh.noaa. Scharfenberg HighwaySilver 6910 nberg@noaa. w.nws.no Forecast and Effective Impact Graphics, information, and societal impact statistics will gov/crh/?n Spring, MD gov aa.gov/su Support Office 06/09/2015 CONUS only be automatically produced upon the initial =impact 20910 rvey/nws- Director Replaced by issuance of, and subsequent updates to, each survey.ph Update 1 NWS text short-fuse warning product: Tornado p?code= Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Warning, EGSFWK Flash Flood Warning, and Extreme Wind S Warning.

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New Experimental NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) Kansas EAX HWO http://www Andy Bailey WFO Kansas 816-540-6021 andy.bailey@ 2/15/2014 1/1/2015 http://ww Central Region Discontinued - Situation Report City will produce a daily PDF document Briefing.pdf .crh.noaa. City noaa.gov w.nws.no Director Effective containing the traditional hazardous weather gov/image 1803 North 7 aa.gov/su 06/04/2015 outlook text along with additional descriptive s/fxc/eax/e Hwy rvey/nws- Replaced by graphics, hyperlinks, and other dynamic m1/EAX- Pleasant Hill, survey.ph Update 1 content. The product will apply to northwest EMBriefin MO 64080 p?code= Missouri into central Missouri and far eastern g1.pdf HWOB New Experimental TheK EHWO Th is l a decision H support d W service th that SGF_EHWO_P http://www Jason WFO Springfield 417-863-8028 Jason.schaum 4/1/2012 4/1/2013 Jason.sch Central Region Discontinued - Enhanced supports preparedness and response efforts DD.pdf .crh.noaa. Schaumann 5805 W. HWY [email protected] aumann Director Effective Hazardous prior to and during hazardous weather. In gov/sgf/?n EE v @noaa.g 06/02/2015 Weather Outlook conjunction with the textual HWO, the clear =hwo Springfield, MO ov Replaced by (EHWO) and concise Internet-based EHWO graphics 65802 Update 1 provides decision makers with convenient access to potential weather hazard information by graphically depicting the risk of multiple weather hazards out to seven days in the future. New Experimental The experimental Hurricane Local Statement HLSITR_PDD.p http://www John F. Kuhn NWS Marine & 301-427-9365 john.f.kuhn@n 6/30/2014 11/30/2014 http://ww Analyze, Discontinued - Hurricane Local (HLS) – Text Reader is an internet product df .nws.noaa. Coastal oaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Effective Statement that provides users of the HLS an easier way gov/ghls/ Weather aa.gov/su Support Office 06/01/2015 Interactive Text to extract segmented information for Services Branch rvey/nws- Director Reader supporting time and location specific 1325 East West survey.ph decisions. The product enables users to be Highway p?code= able to mouse over a map of a WFO’s area Silver Spring, HLSITR and obtain text information on wind, coastal MD 20911 flooding, inland flooding, and tornado impacts that are expected.

New Experimental The Tropical Cyclone Impact Graphics are an PDDEXP http://www John F. Kuhn NWS Marine & 301-427-9364 john.f.kuhn@n 6/1/2014 11/30/2014 http://ww Analyze, Discontinued - Tropical Cyclone internet-based product suite consisting of four TCIG.pdf .weather.g Coastal oaa.gov w.weathe Forecast and Effective Impact Graphics, hazard graphics: wind, tornado, coastal flood, ov/tcig/ Weather r.gov/surv Support Office 06/01/2015 Update 7 and inland flood. Each graphic is based on Services Branch ey/nws- Director the most recent threat assessment as 1325 East West survey.ph centered on a particular geographic area of Highway p?code=t interest and is presented in terms of potential Silver Spring, cig impact while using associated descriptions MD 20910 unique to that area. The graphics take into account the forecast magnitude of the hazard, along with the associated uncertainty of the forecast.

New Experimental WFOs along Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, as well TCThreatGrids http://previ John F. Kuhn NWS Marine & 301-427-9364 john.f.kuhn@n 8/19/2014 11/30/2014 http://ww Analyze, Approved for Tropical Cyclone as WFO San Juan, will provide, on on an NDFD.pdf ew.weathe Coastal oaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Operations - Threat Grids experimental basis, four Tropical Cyclone r.gov/grap Weather aa.gov/su Support Office Effective Added to the (TC) Threat grids in the National Digital hical/ Services Branch rvey/nws- Director 06/01/2015 NDFD Forecast Database (NDFD). The TC Threat 1325 East West survey.ph grids provide the worse-case plausible Highway p?code=T scenario or threat associated with the Silver Spring, CTEND following hazards; wind, storm surge, flooding MD 20910 rain, and tornado. There are five levels to describe each TC Threat element; None, Low, Moderate, High, Extreme. The methodology for creating the grids takes in account the forecast magnitude and the associated forecast uncertainty for each of the hazards. Page 22 of 26 NWS Database of Information Service Changes 10/21/2015

New Experimental This is a gridded and graphical depiction of Experimental http://www Joseph Ocean 301-683-1495 joseph.sienkie 10/31/2013 6/3/2014 www.nws. Analyze, Approved for Lightning Strike the density of lightning strikes. It is based on Lightning Strike .opc.ncep. Sienkiewicz Prediction [email protected] noaa.gov/ Forecast and Operations - Density Product the ground based Vaisala GLD360 global Density Product noaa.gov/l Center ov survey/nw Support Office Effective lightning network and is capable of detecting 20130913.pdf ightning 5830 University s- Director 05/21/2015 cloud-to-ground strokes, cloud-to-ground flash Research Court survey.ph information and survey level cloud lightning College Park, p?code=L information. Lightning Strike Density, as MD 20740 SDP opposed to display of individual strikes, highlights the location of lightning cores and trends of increasing and decreasing activity. It is also a parameter that is useful to compare cloud to ground capabilities from different sources of lightning data.

New Experimental 5- The 5-Day Graphical Tropical Weather PDD http://www John F. Kuhn NWS Marine & 301-427-9366 john.f.kuhn@n 6/30/2014 11/30/2014 http://ww Analyze, Approved for Day Graphical Outlook product is a visual companion to the 5- Experimental .nhc.noaa. Coastal oaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Operations - Tropical Weather day (120 hour) forecast and discussion within Graphical 5- gov Weather aa.gov/su Support Office Effective Outlook the text Tropical Weather Outlook product. Day TWO.pdf Services Branch rvey/nws- Director 05/15/2015 The product will be produced for the Atlantic 1325 East West survey.ph and east Pacific basins by the NHC. Highway p?code=F Silver Spring, DGTWO MD 20912

New Experimental The Experimental Hurricane Local PDD WFO John F. Kuhn NWS Marine & 301-427-9364 john.f.kuhn@n 10/20/2014 11/21/2014 http://ww Analyze, Approved for Hurricane Local Watch/Warning product is a segmented, TCV_rev.pdf Coastal oaa.gov w.nws.no Forecast and Operations - Watch/Warning automated product, with each segment being Weather aa.gov/su Support Office Effective Product a discrete zone, containing tropical cyclone Services Branch rvey/nws- Director 05/07/2015 watches/warnings in effect, meteorological 1325 East West survey.ph information, hazards (rain, storm surge, wind, Highway p?code= tornadoes) and their potential impacts, and Silver Spring, HLWWE preparedness information at the WFO level. MD 20910 XP The product is intended to be parsed by the weather enterprise. For 2015, the proposal is for the Hurricane Local Watch/Warning Product to become the operational WFO flagship product for disseminating tropical cyclone watches/warnings for the Atlantic hurricane basin when a tropical cyclone affects land areas of their county warning area.

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New Experimental The Helicopter Emergency Medical Services HEMS_PDD_O http://www Rebecca Aviation 816-584-7262 rebecca.waddi 2/25/2015 3/20/2015 http://ww Analyze, Approved for Helicopter (HEMS) Tool is an interactive online display P.pdf .aviationw Waddington Weather Center ngton@noaa. w.nws.no Forecast and Operations - Emergency that can overlay multiple fields of interest. All eather.gov 7220 NW 101St gov aa.gov/su Support Office Effective Medical Services data is time synchronized to go back up to 6 /hemst Terrace rvey/nws- Director 05/04/2015 (HEMS) Tool hours and forward up to 6 hours. The tool has Kansas City, survey.ph high-resolution basemaps from ESRI, MO 64153-2371 p?code= including colored relief, satellite and street HEMS- views. Overlays include navigational aids, Tool airports, and heliports for the entire United States. More detail is revealed as you zoom in and individual layers can be turned on or off independently. The HEMS Tool was specifically designed in response to a request New Experimental A new experimental map viewer f enablesf NDFDMapView http://previ Andy Horvitz Office of 301-427-9357 andy.horvitz@ 1/3/2013 12/31/2013 http://ww Office of Approved for National Digital users to interactively zoom and roam erPDD.pdf ew.weathe Climate, Water noaa.gov w.nws.no Climate, Water, Operations - Forecast Database experimental NDFD forecast grids displayed r.gov/grap & Weather aa.gov/su and Weather Effective (NDFD) Map at full resolution. hical/ Services rvey/nws- Services Director 03/31/2015 Viewer 1325 East West survey.ph Highway Silver p?code= Spring, MD wxmap 20910

Terminate Proposed Proposal for discontinuing the English pns11sju_rwsl.t Israel Matos WFO San Juan 787-253-4586 Israel.Matos@ 3/28/2011 6/1/2011 Israel.Mat Southern Region pending termination of Language Weather Summary Products for xt 4000 Carretera ext. 222 noaa.gov os@noaa Director Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico (RWSPR) and the U.S. Virgin 190 .gov USVI Weather Islands (RWSVI) and the Spanish Language Carolina, PR Summary Products Weather Summary Product for Puerto 00979 and the Puerto Rico(RWSSPN) Rico Spanish Weather Summary Product

Terminate Proposed NCEP is proposing to terminate all pns12ozone_p Ivanka NOAA/NWS/OS 301-427-9103 ivanka.stajner 10/23/2012 11/26/2012 nwssp.co Analyze, pending Termination of operational and experimental ozone air quality m2.5removal.ht Strajner T, 1325 East @noaa.gov mments Forecast and NWS Ozone Air predictions and developmental predictions of m West Hwy, @noaa.g Support Office Quality Predictions fine particulate matter (PM2.5) produced using Silver Spring, ov Director the Community Model for Air Quality (CMAQ) MD 20910 at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

Terminate Proposed NWS is proposing to terminate the Coded pns14end_mvf. Richard May NWS Marine & 301-427-9378 Richard.May 9/8/2014 10/31/2014 Richard. Analyze, pending termination of Marine Verification Forecast (MVF). The MVF htm Coastal @noaa.gov May@no Forecast and Coded Marine is a legacy system product containing coded Weather aa.gov Support Office Verification wind, wave, and hazard forecasts for sensors Services Branch Director Forecast (MVF) on fixed point locations for specific time 1325 East West periods. The product’s main use was Highway measuring marine forecast performance. The Silver Spring, new marine forecast verification system takes MD 20910 all NWS marine wind and wave forecasts directly from the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD). NWS no longer needs to issue a coded forecast for fixed point locations to measure performance and thus no longer uses the MVF.

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Terminate Proposed NWS is proposing to terminate the Family of pns15fos_termi Robert Bunge Office of 301-427-9608 robert.bunge 9/1/2015 10/2/2015 robert.bu Chief Operating pending termination of Services (FOS) program. As part of the nation.htm Dissemination @noaa.gov nge@noa Officer, Office of Family of Services deployment of the NWS Integrated 1325 East-West a.gov Planning and (FOS) Dissemination Project (IDP), the physical host Highway Programming for of FOS, the NWS Telecommunications Silver Spring, Service Delivery Gateway (NWSTG) will be decommissioned MD 20910 Director, and after other NWSTG functions are migrated to Office of IDP. Additionally, difficulty in accepting and Organizational Terminate Proposed NWS is proposing to terminate the use of the pns15cellweath http://cell. Kolly Mars NWS Internet 816-286-4932 kolly.mars@n 8/25/2015 10/9/2015 kolly.mar Analyze, pending termination of http://cell.weather.gov. If approved, the URL ergov.htm weather.g Dissemination oaa.gov s@noaa. Forecast and cell.weather.gov would be decommissioned on November 2, ov System gov Support Office 2015. This URL hosts a legacy application 7220 NW 101St Director and designed for use prior to Terrace, Kansas NCEP Central 2004 and is no longer maintainable. This site City, MO 64153 Operations usage has significantly decreased in the last Director several years as well. The URL's main use was to provide weather data to low bandwidth users on older technology cell phones. This service has been replaced with the adaptive display at http://forecast.weather.gov.

Terminate Proposed NWS Alaska Region (AR) is proposing to MSAT PNS Angel Corona Alaska Region 907-271-5119 angel.corona 9/11/2015 10/10/2015 angel.cor Alaska Region pending termination of the terminate the Mobile Satellite (MSAT) system, HQ @noaa.gov ona@noa Director Mobile Satellite operated by AR since 2004. The purpose of 222 West 7th a.gov (MSAT) System the system was to increase the number of Ave. voluntary marine observations in AK waters Anchorage, AK from ships, particularly the commercial fishing 99513 fleet. In the years since MSAT was installed, the way that AR receives obs from ships has evolved. The vast majority of obs are received via a special email address that automatically processes the obs, or via the National Turbowin Program. The number of obs received via MSAT is extremely small (0.25%) of overall obs from AK ships and these obs Terminate Proposal to cease NWS is proposing to cease dissemination of pns14wsr- Jessica Radar 405-573-8808 jessica.a.schu 12/1/2014 2/6/2015 jessica.a. Analyze, Approved - dissemination of six products via the Satellite Broadcast 88dLevel3 Schultz Operations [email protected] schultz@ Forecast and Effective six WSR-88D Network (SBN)/NOAAPORT and Radar Center noaa.gov Support Office 05/13/2015 products via Product Central Collection Dissemination 1200 Director SBN/NOAAPORT Service (RPCCDS). The NEXRAD program Westheimer and RPCCDS and the tri-agency primary users no longer Drive have requirements for Level III dissemination Norman, OK and collection of the six products. 73069

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Terminate Proposed NWS is proposing to stop disseminating low pns10_88D_ba Jessica Radar 405-573-8809 jessica.a.schu 6/30/2010 8/6/2010 jessica.a. Analyze, Approved - Termination of resolution WSR-88D base products because se_products Schultz Operations [email protected] schultz@ Forecast and Effective WSR-88D Low they have been replaced by higher resolution Center noaa.gov Support Office 04/04/2016 Resolution Base base products. 1200 Director Products Westheimer Drive Norman, OK 73070

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