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Service Change Notice 13-14
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
935 AM EST Mon Feb 25 2013
TO: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS employees
FROM: James E. Hoke
Director Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
SUBJECT: Transition of NCEP Mesoscale Discussions for Heavy
Rainfall from Storm Prediction Center to HPC
Effective April 9 2013
Effective April 9, 2013, at 1500 UTC the NCEP Hydrometeorological
Prediction Center (HPC) will assume responsibility for issuing
Mesoscale Precipitation Discussions (MPDs)for heavy rainfall
events expected in the next 6 hour timeframe. These products will
include a graphic outlining the areas of concern and a technical
discussion in text format. These products will be similar to and
replace those Mesoscale Convective Discussions (MCDs) for heavy
rainfall currently issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC).
SPC will continue to produce MCDs for severe weather and winter
weather using the same AWIPS headers.
The HPC MPDs will be available using the following AWIPS headers:
Text discussions
AWIPS PIL: FFGMPD
WMO ID: AWUS01 KWNH
Redbook Graphics
WMO ID: PENA01 KWNH
12Planet ID for MPD forecaster is hpc_Metwatch.
The products will also be available online at:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/metwatch_mpd.php
If you have questions or feedback, please contact:
Ed Danaher
Chief, HPC Forecast Operations Branch
301-683-1494
edwin.danaher@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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