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Service Change Notice 24-31
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
130 PM EDT Wed Mar 20 2024

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

From:  Stephen Bieda III, Ph.D., Chief
  Severe, Fire, Public and Winter Weather Services
  Branch

Subject:  Reinstatement of Marine Local Storm Report Event Types on
or
  about March 26th, 2024

On or about March 26th, 2024, at 1400 UTC, the National Weather
Service
(NWS) will reinstate Marine Hail and Marine Thunderstorm (Tstm) Wind
event
types within the NWS Local Storm Report (LSR) product. These had been
previously removed during the implementation of the mixed-case
Text/95
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character
set
in Preliminary LSRs (reference updated Service Change Notice (SCN)
23-21:
https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2023_24/scn23-
31_lsr_source_changes_2022_aac.pdf)

The changes will proceed after expiration in the event of a Critical
Weather Day (CWD) or an Enhanced Caution Event (ECE).

No other changes to LSR formatting are being made at this time.


Table 1:       Event Types Reinstated
Marine Hail    Marine Tstm Wind


Table 2: Affected Products

AWIPS ID   WMO ID Product Name
--------   ------- -------------
LSRxxx   NWUS55 Kxxx Preliminary Local Storm Report (xxx is
 the 3-letter ID of the issuing office)
STAHRY   NWUS22 KWNS SPC Hourly Severe Weather Report Log
STADTS   NWUS20 KWNS SPC Daily Severe Weather Report Log

Local Storm Reports can be found on the following operational
dissemination endpoints:
 - https://api.weather.gov/
 - https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/
 - NOAA Weather Wire Service Open Interface (NWWS-OI)

Comments and questions related to this change can be directed to:

Aaron Treadway
Acting NWS Severe Weather Services Program Manager
Silver Spring, MD
aaron.treadway@noaa.gov

Questions about the operational dissemination endpoints can be
directed
to:

NCEP Central Operations
Operational Monitoring Branch Tech Control
nco.ops@noaa.gov

National Service Change Notices are online at:

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