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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Columbia SC
950 AM EDT Tue Jun 4 2024

To:        Subscribers:
           -NOAA Weather Wire Service
           -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
           -NOAAPort
           Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees

From:      Greg Schoor, Chief
           Marine, Tropical and Tsunami Services Branch

Subject:   National Tropical Cyclone Watch Warning Product
           (TCV) Collaboration Testing Tuesday, June 4

The NWS National Hurricane Center, the Weather Prediction Center,
the Ocean Prediction Center, and Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in
the NWS Eastern Region and Southern Region will perform internal
testing of the National Tropical Cyclone Watch/Warning (TCV) product
collaboration process on Tuesday, June 4, 2024.

Internal testing will begin at approximately 1600 UTC and terminate
at 1900 UTC.

Internal TCV test products are not intended to be released
externally through NWS dissemination and communication systems. The
text products affected by collaboration testing are the National
Tropical Cyclone Watch/Warning (TCV) products issued under the
following AWIPS Product Identifiers (PIL) and World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) Identifiers (ID):


TCV Product                    AWIPS PIL   WMO ID
------------                   ---------   -------
Atlantic National TCV          TCVAT/1-5/  WTNT/81-85/ KNHC

In addition, the following National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD)
elements will be created for this test:

     - Tropical cyclone wind probabilities (incremental and
cumulative) for 34 kt, 50 kt, and 64 kt

     - Hazard grid (including tropical storm, hurricane, and storm
surge hazards)

The NWS will continue periodic internal tropical software testing
during the remainder of 2024.  The national TCV product will contain
a summary of collaborated wind and/or storm surge watches and
warnings, depicted by NWS-defined geographic zones.

NWS WFOs participating in the national TCV product collaboration
tests are listed below by NWS Region:

NWS - Eastern Region

Columbia, SC (CAE)
Greenville-Spartanburg, SC (GSP)
Blacksburg/Roanoke, VA (RNK)

NWS - Southern Region

Atlanta, GA (FFC)
Jacksonville, FL (JAX)
Melbourne, FL (MLB)
Miami, FL (MFL)
Morristown, TN (MRX)
San Juan, PR (SJU)

For more information, please contact:

  Frank Alsheimer
  Science and Operations Officer
  National Weather Service Office Columbia, SC
  frank.alsheimer@noaa.gov

National Public Information Statements are online at:

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

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