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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
843 AM CDT Thu Apr 11 2024

...PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Service Change Notice
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
833 AM CDT Thu Apr 11 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 11, 2024 (Backup date: April 25, 2024)
 
The National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in Honolulu, San Diego, and Los Angeles along with most WFOs in the NWS Southern and Eastern Regions will commence with Hurricane Threats and Impacts (HTI) threat grid mosaic testing today, Thursday, April 11.  April 25 has been designated as the backup test date in the event that testing cannot be conducted today.

Testing will begin at approximately 1500 UTC 10 AM CDT.  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 1230 PM CDT.

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:

For Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley:
https://www.weather.gov/srh/tropical?office=bro#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:
 
  Mike Buchanan
  Meteorologist-in-Charge
  National Weather Service Office
  Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley, Texas
  mike.buchanan@noaa.gov

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