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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
824 AM CDT Mon May 20 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:

Barry Goldsmith
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
National Weather Service
Brownsville, TX
956-504-1432
Barry.Goldsmith@noaa.gov

National Public Information Statements are online at:

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


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