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Technical Implementation Notice 13-35 Corrected
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
715 AM EST Mon Nov 4 2013
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees
From: Tim McClung
Chief, Science Plans Branch
Office of Science and Technology
Subject: Corrected: Additions and Changes to the NAM and RAP
BUFR Soundings: Effective December 17, 2013
Station 726710, KBPI, is Big Piney, WY not CA, as listed
previously. Station 000351, JHN is Johnsondale, CA,
not Johsonville, as listed previously.
Effective on or about Tuesday, December 17, 2013, beginning with
the 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) model distribution, the
National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) will modify
the list of stations for which BUFR data are generated for both
the North American Mesoscale (NAM) and Rapid Refresh (RAP)
models. The changes will also modify the lists of stations in the
North American Mesoscale (NAM) model BUFR sounding collectives
disseminated on NOAAPORT.
The new stations are listed in Table 1, and the stations being
changed are listed in Table 2. No stations are being removed.
This set of changes to the NAM and RAP will correspond with the
implementation of version 2 of the RAP, currently scheduled for
December 17.
The high-resolution NAM nests use the same station list as the
parent 12 km NAM, so any changes to the list involving locations within a particular nest impact that nests BUFR output as well. In this implementation, all of the modified sites are in the CONUS nest output. All of the new stations are in the CONUS nest output, except for station 000367 which will appear in the Puerto Rico nest output. The changes to the BUFR station lists will result in no changes to the WMO headers of the NOAAPORT NAM soundings collectives. The headers listed in Table 3, below are used today, and these headers will continue to be used. There will also be no change to the BUFR format of the products except that new stations will be included in the collectives. The new stations appear in Table 4. The Short-Range Ensemble Forecast system (SREF) station list will be updated in early 2014. The changes to that list will be discussed in the upcoming SREF TIN. Table 1. New stations in the NAM and RAP BUFR lists. The numerical and character identifications are provided: 000345 KPNA Pinedale WY 000346 WLM William CA 000347 BNY Burney CA 000348 SON Sonora CA 000349 YSV Yosemite Valley CA 000350 LSY Lindsay CA 000351 JHN Johnsondale CA 000352 FZP Frazier Park CA 000353 COA Coalinga CA 000354 TBM Table Mountain CA 000355 KPSF Pittsfield MA 000356 KUNI Athens/Albany OH 000357 K36U Heber Valley Municipal Apt UT 000358 B40 Yuma AZ 000359 B41 Ft Huachuca AZ 000360 B42 Deming NM 000361 B43 Marfa TX 000362 B44 Eagle Pass TX 000363 B45 Rio Grande City TX 000364 B46 Matagorda TX 000365 B47 Morgan City LA 000366 B48 Cudjoe Key FL 000367 B49 Lajas PR 723066 KGSB Seymour-Johnson AFB NC 724397 KBMI Bloomington/Normal IL 725490 KFOD Fort Dodge IA 725635 KAIA Alliance NE 726710 KBPI Big Piney WY Table 2. Changes to existing sites being made to the NAM and RAP BUFR lists. The numerical and character identifications are provided: -Station 000037 (near Carroll, IA) is moved from 42.00 N, 95.00 W to 42.04 N, 94.79 W and will now be known as Carroll, IA. This puts the BUFR point at the local airport instead of the current rural location. -Station 000050 (near Albia, IA) is moved from 40.90 N, 92.8 W to 42.11 N, 92.92 W and will now be known as Marshalltown, IA. The character identifier is changed from AIA to MAR. -Station 000080 (Redding, IA) is moved from 40.69 N, 94.47 W to 41.02 N, 94.36 W and will now be known as Creston, IA. The character identifier is changed from RDD to CSQ. - Station 724754 (Saint George AWOS, UT) is moved from 37.08 N, 113.6 W to 37.04N, 113.5W to match the new location of the airport. Table 3. WMO communication identifiers for the NAM BUFR collectives: JUSA41 KWNO JUSA42 KWNO JUSB43 KWNO JUSB44 KWNO JUSB45 KWNO JUSB46 KWNO JUSX47 KWNO JUSX49 KWNO Table 4. Additions to NAM BUFR sounding collectives: Collective 1 (JUSA41): STATION STATION STATION NUMBER ID NAME 000366 B48 Cudjoe Key FL 000367 B49 Lajas PR 723066 KGSB Seymour-Johnson AFB NC Collective 2 (JUSA42): STATION STATION STATION NUMBER ID NAME 000355 KPSF Pittsfield MA 000356 KUNI Athens/Albany OH 724397 KBMI Bloomington/Normal IL Collective 3 (JUSB43): STATION STATION STATION NUMBER ID NAME 000360 B42 Deming NM 000361 B43 Marfa TX 000363 B45 Rio Grande City TX 000364 B46 Matagorda TX 000365 B47 Morgan City LA Collective 4 (JUSB44): STATION STATION STATION NUMBER ID NAME 725490 KFOD Fort Dodge IA 725635 KAIA Alliance NE Collective 5 (JUSB45): ADDED: STATION STATION STATION NUMBER ID NAME 000346 WLM William CA 000347 BNY Burney CA 000348 SON Sonora CA 000349 YSV Yosemite Valley CA 000350 LSY Lindsay CA 000351 JHN Johnsondale CA 000352 FZP Frazier Park CA 000353 COA Coalinga CA 000354 TBM Table Mountain CA 000357 K36U Heber Valley Municipal Apt UT 000358 B40 Yuma AZ 000359 B41 Ft Huachuca AZ 000362 B44 Eagle Pass TX Collective 6 (JUSB46): STATION STATION STATION NUMBER ID NAME 000345 KPNA Pinedale WY 726710 KBPI Big Piney WY There are no changes to collectives 7 or 9, and 8 does not exist. If you have any questions concerning these changes, please contact:Geoff Manikin
NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center
College Park, Maryland 20746
301-683-3695
geoffrey.manikin@xxxxxxxx
If you have questions about the NOAAPORT activation of these
products, please contact:
Brian Gockel
NWS/Office of Science and Technology
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
301-713-0304 X 158
brian.gockel@xxxxxxxx
This and other NWS technical implementation notices are available
online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm
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