NEXRAD Commissioning Notice

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• Subject: NEXRAD Commissioning Notice
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• Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 16:47:07 -0700

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
830 AM EST WED DEC 14 1994

ATTENTION:   ALL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (NWS) OFFICES, 
             FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS, NOAA WEATHER WIRE
             SERVICE SUBSCRIBERS, OTHER NWS PRODUCT USERS

SUBJECT:     NEXRAD Commissioning Notice -

Taunton (Boston), Massachusetts, Birmingham, Alabama, and Fort
Worth, Texas 

                       ***** NOTICE *****

Another milestone in the Doppler, Weather Surveillance Radar,
(WSR-88D) program will be reached on December 15, 1994, when the
National Weather Service (NWS) commissions the WSR-88D radars at
Taunton (Boston), Massachusetts (call letters BOX), Birmingham,
Alabama (call letters BMX), and Fort Worth, Texas (call letters
FWS).  On December 16, 1994 three more WSR-88D radars will be
commissioned.  The locations for these new radars are at Chicago,
Illinois (call letters LOX), Hastings, Nebraska (call letters UEX),
and Oxnard, California (call letters VTX).
 
This brings the total of commissioned NWS WSR-88D radars to 20. 

Commissioning means that these radars are now issuing products,
such as the Radar Observation (ROB) message, in an official
capacity.  Also, products from the NEXRAD Information
Dissemination Service will no longer have an experimental or test
message appended to them.  

Persons wishing more information concerning the WSR-88D should
contact their local National Weather Service office or call 
(301) 713-0070.

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