[Skywarn] EMWIN outage

[Lloyd Colston]

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