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Service Change Notice 16-57: Updated
National Weather Service Headquarters, Silver Spring, MD
1135 AM EDT Tue Mar 14 2017
To: Subscribers:
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees
From: Michelle Hawkins
Chief; Severe, Fire, Public and Winter Weather Services
Branch
Subject: Updated: Use of Mixed-Case Text/95 ASCII Character Set
in Preliminary Local Storm Reports (LSR) Delayed until
the October 2017 Time Frame
Updated to delay the implementation of mixed-case text in
preliminary LSRs until the October 2017 time frame. A Service
Change Notice will be issued with an exact effective date when
one is determined. Previous proposed changes to event sources
and types will also be delayed until further notice. Proposed
changes can be viewed in the original SCN 16-57 issuance in
Table 1: Event Source List, Table 2: Event Type List, and Table
3: Affected Products.
Effective in the October 2017 time frame, the Preliminary LSR
product will transition to a mixed-case text/95 ASCII character
set. No format changes (spacing, order, etc.) will be included
with this transition to mixed-case. Additionally, there will be
no changes to event sources/types at this time.
A sample of the mixed case LSR format with multiple examples can
be found below:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/pns/lsr-public_02-17.docx
If you have questions, please contact:
Greg Schoor
NWS Severe Weather Program Coordinator
Norman, OK 73072
Mike Dion
NWS Digital and Graphical Information Support Branch
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Ashley Kells
NWS Office of Central Processing
Silver Spring, MD 20910
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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