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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service New Orleans LA
830 AM CDT Thu Apr 25 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:   Hurricane Threats and Impacts (HTI) Mosaic Testing on
           April 25, 2024

Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in the National Weather Service
(NWS) Southern and Eastern Regions will commence with Hurricane
Threats and Impacts (HTI) threat grid mosaic testing on
Thursday, April 25.  Testing will begin at approximately 1500
UTC.  Test activities will take approximately 1 hour; however,
NWS dissemination systems may take up to an hour and a half to
purge all test data.  All test data is expected to be cleared
by 1730 UTC.

For the test, HTI grids will be created for hurricane Wind
Threat, Storm Surge Threat, Flooding Rain Threat, and Tornado
Threat at each participating WFO.  Those grids are stitched
together into storm-scale HTI graphics.  The HTI Mosaic
graphics are available in Keyhole Markup Language (KML) format
on the following webpage:
https://www.weather.gov/hti

The mosaics are also available through the National Digital
Forecast Database and on web pages hosted by the Weather
Forecast Offices (WFOs) affected by the tropical cyclone.
These webpages use the following URL format, where “wfo” should
be replaced with the 3 digit identifier for the WFO of interest:

NWS Eastern Region WFOs:
https://www.weather.gov/wfo/tropical#hti

NWS Southern Region WFOs:
https://www.weather.gov/srh/tropical?office=wfo#hti

More details on HTI can be found in the Product Description
Document:
https://www.weather.gov/media/srh/tropical/PDD_HTI.pdf

Periodic software and hardware testing in preparation for
tropical cyclone events will continue during the remainder of 2024.

For more information, please contact:

  Jared Klein
  Acting Meteorologist in Charge
  National Weather Service Office
  New Orleans/Baton Rouge
  sr-lix.forecasters@noaa.gov

National Public Information Statements are online at:
https://www.weather.gov/notification/

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