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Service Change Notice 24-63
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
120 PM EDT Tue Jun 11 2024

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

From:Terrance J. Clark
Director, NWS WSR-88D Radar Operations Center

Subject:  Decommissioning of the NOAA Profiler Network (NPN),
  Effective July 11, 2024

The Radar Operations Center (ROC) will decommission the NOAA Profiler
Network (NPN) effective July 11, 2024. NPN consists of three
operational
sites in Alaska (Anchorage (AWPA), Homer (HWPA), and Talkeetna
(TLKA)).

The NPN has been identified as a low priority system by operational
users.
NPN equipment is obsolete with unreliable data availability which
have
never met operational availability requirements. NPN data were
previously
available: https://www.weather.gov/nl2/NPNView.

Archived datasets of Wind Profile Data are available at the National
Centers for Environmental Information:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-
page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C01627

If you have questions, please contact:
Cynthia Fay
NWS Radar Focal Point
Radar Operations Center
cynthia.fay@noaa.gov

Service Change Notices are online at:

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