From colstonl at gmail.com Fri Aug 30 15:09:37 2019 From: colstonl at gmail.com (Lloyd Colston) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:09:37 -0500 Subject: [Skywarn] GOES and EMWIN Message-ID: <53068175-F563-4D41-AB14-F59069E48877@gmail.com> Updated to reflect the effective date of the eEMWIN services becoming operational from TBD to August 29, 2019. Users will be notified via a different SCN for information relating to the discontinuation date of the legacy EMWIN services through GOES- 14 and GOES-15. Effective on or about August 29, 2019, 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 IDP eEMWIN dissemination service operates through a public facing NWS web dervice 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 The NWS eEMWIN HRIT-EMWIN broadcast and data hosted on the public facing NWS web service will be supported operationally. 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 (VCID) on the 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 before 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" 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 before the eEMWIN services effective date. Further information on the eEMWIN web service is available in the "eEMWIN FTP Service Description Document" at: https://www.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/#documents Lloyd Colston, KC5FM Newkirk, OK