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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
1107 PM CDT Mon May 21 2018

To:
 Subscribers: 
		NOAA Weather Wire Service 
		Emergency Managers Weather Information 
		Network NOAA
		Port Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees

From:      Allison Allen
			Chief, Marine, Tropical and Tsunami Services Branch 

Subject:   National Tropical Cyclone Watch Warning Product (TCV)
           Product Collaboration Tests

The National Hurricane Center (NHC), along with 26 National Weather 
Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) in Southern Region and 
15 WFOs in Eastern Region, will commence with internal software and 
hardware testing of the national TCV product collaboration process 
for the Atlantic basin on Monday, May 21 and continue daily through 
Thursday, May 24, 2018. During this period, NHC will also request
test runs of the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) 
and Hurricanes in a Multi-scale Ocean-coupled Non-hydrostatic 
(HMON) models. 

Internal testing will begin at approximately 1400 GMT and
terminate at 1900 GMT daily during scheduled test days. In the
event of inclement weather, Friday, May 25, 2018 has been
reserved to serve as backup date for any portion of testing that
was delayed.

Internal TCV test products are not intended to be released
externally through NWS dissemination and communication systems.

Periodic NHC and WFO internal software and hardware testing will
continue during the remainder of 2018. The national TCV product
for the Atlantic basin will contain a summary of NHC/WFO
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 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)
Huntsville, AL (HUN)
Jackson, MS (JAN)
Jacksonville, FL (JAX)
Key West, FL (KEY)
Lake Charles, LA (LCH)
Little Rock, AR (LZK)
Melbourne, FL (MLB)
Memphis, TN (MEG)
Miami, FL (MFL)
Mobile, AL (MOB)
Morristown, TN (MRX)
Nashville, TN (OHX)
New Orleans, LA (LIX)
Norman, OK (OUN)
San Juan, PR (SJU)
Shreveport, LA (SHV)
Tallahassee, FL (TAE)
Tampa Bay Area, FL (TBW)
Tulsa, OK (TSA)

NWS Eastern Region
 
Albany, NW (ALY)
Boston, MA (BOX)
Caribou, ME (CAR)
Charleston, SC (CHS)
Gray/Portland, ME (GYX)
Mount Holly, NJ (PHI)
Newport/Morehead City, NC (MHX)
New York, NY (OKX)
Sterling, VA (LWX)
Wakefield, VA (AKQ)
Wilmington, NC (ILM)
Columbia, SC (CAE)
Greenville-Spartanburg, SC (GSP)
Raleigh-Durham, NC (RAH)
Blacksburg/Roanoke, VA (RNK)

For more information, please contact:

  Andy Patrick
	 Meteorologist in Charge
     National Weather Service Office
 	 Lake Charles LA
 	 andy.patrick@noaa.gov

     337-477-5285 
	 
National Service Change Notices are online at:

http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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