From colstonl at gmail.com Mon Sep 30 08:35:19 2019 From: colstonl at gmail.com (Lloyd Colston) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 07:35:19 -0500 Subject: [Skywarn] EMWIN outage Message-ID: A planned repair and upgrade of NWS Network Services is scheduled to commence at 1300 UTC, October 1 2019.. and will last approximately 8 hours. A service disruption of 30 to 60 minutes is expected during this maintenance period which may block services or prevent some products from appearing on Legacy EMWIN. The following Legacy EMWIN services may be impacted: a. GOES-14/15 EMWIN Satellite Broadcast b. ByteBlaster c. File Transfer Protocol /FTP/ File service. Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 1 2019 1300-UTC /9:00am ET/ Date/Time of Expected End: October 1 2019 2100-UTC /5:00pm ET/ Length of Disruption: 1 Hour Users relying on Legacy EMWIN services should utilize alternate NWS dissemination services such as the new NWS enterprise EMWIN /eEMWIN/ services or the NOAA Weather Wire Service /NWWS/.. to assure continuous receipt of timely weather and water warnings and alerts.. throughout this period. If a Critical Weather Day is identified to take place during this maintenance event.. the event may be rescheduled. Information contained in this bulletin is posted on https://www.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/index.html#notices https://www.nws.noaa.gov/iscs/index.html Questions or comments on this Bulletin may be addressed to: nws.emwin.support at noaa.gov -- Lloyd Colston KC5FM