Service Change Notice 16-02 Corrected

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Service Change Notice 16-02 Corrected National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC 842 AM EST Tue Jan 19 2016

To: Subscribers: -Family of Services -NOAA Weather Wire Service -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network -NOAAPORT Other NWS partners and NWS employees

From: Luis Cano Director, Office of Dissemination

Subject: Corrected: NWS Geospatial Web Services available on new a server effective January 20, 2016, to support transition scheduled for completion on April 14, 2016

Due to extreme display technical difficulties, one of the services, the natl_fcst_wx_chart, will NOT be available on the effective date of the original announcement below. Efforts will be made to add the service back into the mix when the next set of services are implemented in the spring of 2016.

Effective January 20, 2016, NWS will provide its Geospatial Web Services on a new server at the following url: http://idpgis.ncep.noaa.gov

The new server will provide the data currently available at: http://gis.srh.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services although the service names will change.

The legacy (SRH) service and IDP service names are:

Service Description SRH Name IDP Name Including folder Name ------AHPS River Gauges Ahps_gauges NWS_Observations/ahps_riv_ gauges Atlantic/Caribbean atStorms nws_forecast_guidance_warnings/ Active Storms NHC_atl_trop_cyclones_active

East Pacific epStorms nws_forecast_guidance_warnings/ Active Storms NHC_E_Pac_trop_cyclones_active

All Atlantic/ atStormViewer nws_forecast_guidance_ Caribbean Storms warnings/NHC_atl_trop_cyclone All East epStormViewer nws_forecast_guidance_warnings/ Pacific Storms NHC_E_Pac_trop_cyclones

Weather Hazards Cpc_weather_ Nws_climate_outlooks/ From CPC hazards cpc_weather_hazards

Flood Outlook Fop nws_forecast_guidance_ Product warnings/sig_riv_fld_outlk

Snow Depth/ snow National_ NWS_Observations/ Water equivalent snow_anlys NOHRSC_snow_analysis from NOHRSC

Temperature NDFDTemps nws_forecast_guidance_ relatedNDFD warnings/NDFD_temp

Quantitative QPF nws_forecast_guidance_ Precipitation warnings/wpc_qpf Forecasts

Ridge base RIDGERadar NWS_Observations/ Reflectivity radar radar_base_reflectivity

SPC Convective SPC_ Outlooks nws_forecast_guidance_ Outlooks warnings/spc_wx_outlooks

Watches/warnings/ watchWarn nws_forecast_guidance advisories _warnings/watch_warn_adv

Data will be available from both URLs until the transition completiondate: April 14, 2016. Users of the services will need to editscripts and service calls to point to the new URL by that date.

Effective April 14, 2016, and the NWS Geospatial Web Services data Will be provided only at: http://idpgis.ncep.noaa.gov

A description of the NWS web mapping service formats is posted at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/gis/

For comments or questions please contact:

Ira Graffman Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-427-9413 [email protected]

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