Health & Fitness
Emergency Managers Warning Information Network Makes Emergency Plans
NOAA passing command and control of GOES 11 to Fairbanks Alaska during storm.
This affects anyone that is an Emergency Management official. This should only affect those that get their information from satellite versus the internet like my EMWIN server does, but I'm getting clarification.
NOUS41 KWBC 261844
PNSWSH
Service Change Notice 11-31
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
245 PM EDT Fri Aug 26 2011
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPort
Other NWS partners and employees
From: La Tanya Burton
NWS EMWIN Program Manager
Subject: Hurricane Irene Emergency Outage for to EMWIN
and LRIT users Effective 13:00 EST, Saturday,
August 27, 2011
Effective 1550Z on Saturday through 2145Z on Sunday (approximately noon EDT Saturday through 6 pm EDT Sunday) there will be no Low-Rate Information Transmission (LRIT) data available from GOES West satellite (GOES 11). Due to the hurricane threatening Wallops, VA, and antenna issues, control of GOES-11 will be passed to the Fairbanks, AK, Command and Data Acquisition facility which does not have the capability to transmit LRIT data.
For users of GOES Data Collection System (DCS) there may also be issues with GOES DCS data from GOES West going into LRIT as well, although DCS data should be available through DOMSAT, through the NWS Telecommunications Gateway and GTS, and from the Emergency Data Distribution Network in South Dakota.
There also will not be any Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) data on GOES-West. EMWIN users pointed at GOES-West should switch to the EMWIN byteblaster network to receive EMWIN data during this time. GOES-East will remain broadcasting; however, should that broadcast go down due to the hurricane, please switch to the byteblaster network.
If you have questions or concerns about this notice, contact:
Santos Rodriguez
301-713-0077
Santos.Rodriguez@noaa.gov
National Public Information Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm