[Skywarn] EMWIN outage announced

[Lloyd Colston]

NOXX10 KWBC 021410 COR
Data Management Message 04-18.01
 
To: Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN)
    Customers
 
From: GISC/RTH Washington Data Management 
 
Subject: GOES-14/15 EMWIN Satellite Broadcast Disruption Commencing
         1200 UTC, April 3, 2018
 
The NOAA Wallops Command & Data Acquisition Station (WCDAS), which 
provides the EMWIN data uplink service to the GOES-14 and 15 
satellites, will undergo a planned 48 to 60 hour facility power 
outage commencing 1200 UTC, April 3, 2018.  
 
Date/Time of Initial Impact:  April 3, 2018  1200 UTC
 
** NOTE: The EMWIN satellite broadcast outage may commence any time 
         after April 2, 2018  2045 UTC **
 
Date/Time of Expected End:  April 5, 2018  2359 UTC
 
Length of Outage: 48 to 60 Hours
 
The outage is required to perform maintenance and repairs on the 
station's electrical power system. The power outage can be 
expected to last as long as three days, although the goal is to 
complete the work within two days. 
 
It is likely there will be an outage of the 1692.7 MHz Emergency 
Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) broadcast for the 
duration that WCDAS is down for both GOES-14 and 15. If there is 
an outage, users are asked to utilize GOES-15’s LRIT broadcast, 
the NWS FTP or ByteBlaster services for EMWIN continuity of 
operations.
 
If a ‘Critical Weather Day’ is identified to take place during this
maintenance event, the event will be rescheduled for April 10, 2018.
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/cwd/
 
Information contained in this bulletin is posted on
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/index.html#notices  
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/iscs/index.html
 
Further information is available from:
ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations at noaa.gov at 301-817-3880
NWS EMWIN Support at nws.emwin.support at noaa.gov
 
Data Management 
NCO Production Management Branch College Park 
GISC/RTH Washington Sends 


-- 
John Simensky 
Meteorologist National Weather Service
Dissemination & Outreach 
Silver Spring Maryland


Lloyd Colston
Altus, OK