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Public Information Statement 24-60
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
945 AM EDT Wed Sep 11 2024

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

From: Greg Schoor, Chief
 Marine, Tropical, and Tsunami Services Branch

Subject: National Tsunami Warning Center Routine Communications
Tests for the West Coast and Alaska Coast to Take Place on
September 19, 2024

The NWS National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) and coastal NWS
Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) will perform a routine monthly
tsunami communication test to ensure end-to-end readiness of NWS
dissemination software and hardware on Thursday, September 19,
2024.

The intended recipients of these communication tests include
designated national focal points, state/territorial warning
points, coastal WFOs, U.S. Coast Guard and critical military
dissemination points.

Valid Time Event Code (VTEC) for the test messages will start
with the /T fixed identifier (versus /O for operational
messages). To provide additional assurance that a test message
is not inadvertently distributed as an actual
Warning/Advisory/Watch product, the Event Tracking Numbers
(ETNs) for the test messages will begin with 9 as the leading
digit of the four-character code.

The text products affected by routine monthly tsunami
communication testing are the national tsunami products issued
under the following Advanced Weather Interactive Processing
System (AWIPS) Product Identifiers (PILs) and World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) Identifiers (IDs):

NTWC Product    AWIPS PIL WMO ID
------------    --------- ------
Segmented Tsunami W/W/A for
West Coast/BC/Alaska    TSUWCA WEPA41

Public Tsunami W/W/A for
West Coast/BC/Alaska    TSUAK1 WEAK51

Routine tsunami communications testing will continue monthly.
WFOs participating in the national monthly tsunami
communications test are listed below by NWS Region:

NWS Alaska Region:
Anchorage, AK (AFC)
Juneau, AK (AJK)

NWS Western Region:
Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEW)
Portland, OR (PQR)
Medford, OR (MFR)
Eureka, CA (EKA)
San Francisco, CA (MTR)
Los Angeles, CA (LOX)
San Diego, CA (SGX)

For more information, please contact:

Greg Schoor
Chief, Marine, Tropical, and Tsunami Services Branch
Silver Spring, MD
gregory.m.schoor@noaa.gov

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