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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Melbourne FL
836 AM EDT Thu Apr 25 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 25, 2024

Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in the National Weather Service (NWS)
Southern and Eastern Regions will commence with Hurricane Threats
and Impacts (HTI) threat grid mosaic testing on Thursday, April
25. Testing will begin at approximately 1500 UTC (1100 AM EDT).
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 (130 PM EDT).

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:

NWS Eastern Region WFOs:
https://www.weather.gov/wfo/tropical#hti

NWS Southern Region WFOs:
https://www.weather.gov/srh/tropical?office=wfo#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:

 Matthew Volkmer
 Science and Operations Officer
 National Weather Service Office
 Melbourne, FL
 matthew.volkmer@noaa.gov.

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

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