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Public Information Statement 24-41
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
1230 PM EDT Mon Jun 3 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 June 4, 2024

The NWS National Hurricane Center, the Weather Prediction Center, the
Ocean Prediction Center, and Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in the
NWS
Eastern Region and Southern Region will perform internal testing of
the
National Tropical Cyclone Watch/Warning (TCV) product collaboration
process on Tuesday, June 4, 2024.

Internal testing will begin at approximately 1600 UTC and terminate
at
1900 UTC.

Internal TCV test products are not intended to be released externally
through NWS dissemination and communication systems.  The text
product
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

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

Columbia, SC (CAE)
Greenville-Spartanburg, SC (GSP)
Blacksburg/Roanoke, VA (RNK)

NWS  Southern Region

Atlanta, GA (FFC)
Jacksonville, FL (JAX)
Melbourne, FL (MLB)
Miami, FL (MFL)
Morristown, TN (MRX)
San Juan, PR (SJU)

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/