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Public Information Statement 24-37
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
200 PM EDT Fri May 17 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 May 20-24, 2024 (backup Week: June
3-7)

The NWS National Hurricane Center (NHC), Ocean Prediction Center
(OPC),
and Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in the NWS Eastern Region,
Southern
Region, and Western Region will perform internal testing of the
National
Tropical Cyclone Watch/Warning (TCV) product collaboration process
daily
from Monday, May 20, 2024, through Friday, May 24, 2024. Monday, June
3,
through Friday, June 7, is the designated backup week.

Internal testing will begin at approximately 1600 GMT and terminate
at
1900 GMT daily during the scheduled test days.

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
East Pacific National TCV      TCVEP/1-5/  WTPZ/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

Albany, NY (ALY)
Boston, MA (BOX)
Binghamton, NY (BGM)
Burlington, VT (BTV)
Caribou, ME (CAR)
Charleston, SC (CHS)
Gray/Portland, ME (GYX)
Mount Holly, NJ (PHI)
Newport/Morehead City, NC (MHX)
New York, NY (OKX)
State College, PA (CTP)
Sterling, VA (LWX)
Wakefield, VA (AKQ)
Wilmington, NC (ILM)
Columbia, SC (CAE)
Greenville-Spartanburg, SC (GSP)
Raleigh-Durham, NC (RAH)
Blacksburg/Roanoke, VA (RNK)

NWS  Southern Region

Atlanta, GA (FFC)
Austin-San Antonio, TX (EWX)
Birmingham, AL (BMX)
Brownsville, TX (BRO)
Corpus Christi, TX (CRP)
Fort Worth, TX (FWD)
Houston, TX (HGX)
Jackson, MS (JAN)
Jacksonville, FL (JAX)
Key West, FL (KEY)
Lake Charles, LA (LCH)
Little Rock, AR (LZK)
Melbourne, FL (MLB)
Miami, FL (MFL)
Mobile, AL (MOB)
Morristown, TN (MRX)
New Orleans, LA (LIX)
San Juan, PR (SJU)
Shreveport, LA (SHV)
Tallahassee, FL (TAE)
Tampa Bay Area, FL (TBW)

NWS  Western Region

Los Angeles, CA (LOX)
San Diego, CA (SGX)


For more information, please contact:

 Jessica Schauer
 National Tropical Services Program Manager
 Miami, FL
 Tropical.Program@noaa.gov

National Public Information Statements are online at:

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