Public Information Statement
Issued by NWS National HQ
Issued by NWS National HQ
301 NOUS41 KWBC 031550 PNSWSH Service Change Notice 24-37 National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD 1150 AM EDT Wed Apr 3 2024 To: Subscribers: -NOAA Weather Wire Service -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network -NOAAPort Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees From: William H. Burnett, PhD Acting Director, NWS Office of Observations Subject: Station Changes in GOES-R ASOS Satellite Cloud Products, Effective June 2, 2024 Beginning June 2, 2024, 149 station locations and identifiers will no longer appear in the GOES-R Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) Satellite Cloud Products (ASOS SCPs). The ASOS SCPs supplement surface weather observations with hourly cloud- cover estimates inferred from observations by the GOES-East or GOES-West Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI). Additional details on ASOS SCPs (including the 149 stations to be removed on June 2, 2024) may be found at https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/towr-s/asos-scp. This change will remove obsolete station identifiers and stations that are no longer in service. After the change, ASOS SCPs will report cloud cover estimates for 3,118 station locations (instead of 3,267). These changes build on prior efforts to harmonize ASOS SCPs with the AWIPS National Datasets Maintenance (NDM) list of Meteorological Aerodrome Report (METAR) stations. (SCN23-92) Members of the NOAA community may request changes to the list of stations used for ASOS SCPs via the AWIPS NDM repository at https://vlab.noaa.gov/redmine/projects/awips-ndm/issues. Henceforth, the station list used for ASOS SCPs will be refreshed periodically from the AWIPS NDM repository, with no public notice. Critical weather or other factors may affect the timing of these changes. For questions pertaining to these changes, please contact: NOAA/NWS Office of Observations Silver Spring, MD Email: NWS-OBS-Satellites@noaa.gov or AWIPS Network Control Facility (NCF) Help Desk NOAA/NWS Office of Central Processing Silver Spring, MD Phone: 888-808-8624 For questions regarding the content or distribution of the products listed here please contact: Joseph Fiore NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO Satellite User Services Coordinator College Park, Maryland Email: joseph.fiore@noaa.gov National Service Change Notices are online at: https://www.weather.gov/notification/