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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Key West FL
908 AM EDT Wed May 22 2024

...National Tropical Cyclone Watch Warning Product TCV Collaboration
Today...

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.


Today`s testing will begin at approximately 1600 GMT and terminate
at 1900 GMT.


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.


Some of the NWS WFOs participating in the national TCV product
collaboration tests are listed below:

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)

For more information, please contact:

  Jon Rizzo
  Warning Coordination Meteorologist
  National Weather Service Office
  Key West, FL
  jon.rizzo@noaa.gov

National Public Information Statements are online at:

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

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