Service Change Notice 19-53 Updated
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring, MD
115 PM EDT Thu Jul 11 2019
To: Subscribers:
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Ben Kyger
Director, NCEP Central Operations
Subject: Updated: Enterprise EMWIN Service Transition to
Operations for GOES-East and GOES-West Satellite
Broadcasts Effective on a date to be determined (TBD)
Updated to reflect the effective date of the eEMWIN services becoming operational from July 24, 2019 to TBD; an updated SCN will be issue when a new date is set.
Effective on a date to be determined, the NWS enterprise Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (eEMWIN) service is scheduled to transition to an operational NCEP Central Operations Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP) platform. The eEMWIN dissemination service operates through a public facing NWS web service and over the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R (GOES-R) Series satellites. The present operational GOES-R Series satellites are:
GOES-East (GOES-16) at 75.2 degrees West longitude GOES-West (GOES-17) at 137.2 degrees West longitude
HRIT-EMWIN SERVICE PHASE-IN
On July 30, 2019, the NWS eEMWIN service enters a 30-day system stability evaluation period. On a date to be determined, after a successful evaluation period, the NWS eEMWIN HRIT-EMWIN broadcast and public facing NWS web service will be operational.
Users transitioning to the High Rate Information Transmission
(HRIT) EMWIN broadcast service will require an HRIT-EMWIN receiving station. HRIT-EMWIN system requirements and user information are available from NESDIS. Some information on HRIT- EMWIN receiving station equipment available for purchase is provided on the NWS EMWIN Web Services:
https://www.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/#hrit-emwin
The NWS does not endorse or recommend any products or services appearing on this website.
The assigned EMWIN Virtual Channel Identifiers (VCIDs) on the broadcast are:
VCID-20 - Priority 1 and 2 text products (see note 1 and 2)
VCID-21 - Image products (see note 1 and 3)
VCID-22 - Priority 3 and 4 text products (see note 1 and 2)
Notes:
1. The products on the GOES-16/17 HRIT-EMWIN broadcast should not be used for operational purposes prior to the effective date.
2. Text product information is available in the EMWIN Text Product Catalog on the following web site:
https://www.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/#documents
3. Image product information is available in the EMWIN Image and Text Data Capture Catalog on the following web site:
https://www.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/#documents
The NWS Web Services hosting HRIT-EMWIN satellite broadcast products for download are available here:
https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/CU.EMWIN/DF.xt/DC.gsatR/
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/CU.EMWIN/DF.xt/DC.gsatR/
- By the effective date, the products will begin populating the OPS directory.
- During the 30-day evaluation period, the products will be available in the QA directory.
The products on the eEMWIN Web Service should not be used for operational purposes prior to the eEMWIN Services effective date. Further information on the eEMWIN Web Service is available in the eEMWIN FTP Service Description Document on the following web site:
https://www.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/#documents
User wishing to provide comments on the product and services during the 30-day evaluation period, please contact:
Carissa Klemmer
NCEP Central Operations
idp-support@noaa.gov
carissa.l.klemmer@noaa.gov
and
Robert Gillespie
nws.emwin.support@noaa.gov
Questions on the information contained in this bulletin may be addressed to:
nws.emwin.support@noaa.gov
National Service Change Notices are online at:
https://www.weather.gov/notification/
