...Computer System Upgrade at NWS Raleigh from June 16th
through 18th...
The National Weather Service Raleigh Weather Forecast Office
in Raleigh will be conducting a required, scheduled update
to our Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)
computer system. NWS offices use AWIPS to display and integrate
weather and water information, and to send life-saving
information, such as weather and water warnings, to the public.
AWIPS is updated periodically, but this update is comprehensive
and requires that the system be taken completely offline for
approximately three days, from the morning of Monday, June 16th
through the afternoon hours of Wednesday, June 18th. During that
time, NWS Raleigh forecasters will produce and disseminate
products for the area using the AWIPS system at one of our
backup offices at NWS Blacksburg, VA. No impacts to our core
services of forecast products and weather watches, warnings
and advisories are expected during this period.
A few of our services will be impacted as they originate only
from AWIPS facilities at NWS Raleigh, namely:
* NOAA Weather Radio broadcast: The following NOAA Weather Radio
transmitters, programmed by NWS Raleigh, will be off the air
during most of the AWIPS update:
Buck Mountain (WWF 60 - 162.500 mhz)
Chapel Hill (WXL 58 - 162.550 mhz)
Ellerbe(WNG 597 - 162.400 Mhz)
Garner(WNG 706 - 162.450 mhz)
Henderson (WNG 586 - 162.500 mhz)
Tarboro (WXL 59 - 162.475 mhz)
Winston-Salem (WXL 42 - 162.400 mhz)
* Climate: Data will be updated in a limited fashion from Monday
afternoon, June 16th through Wednesday, June 18th. Climate
graphs for the Raleigh Forecast Area at
https://www.weather.gov/rah/climatePlots will not be updated.
* Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook images normally at
www.weather.gov/erh/ghwo?wfo=rah will not be updated.
* The Weather Story available at
https://www.weather.gov/rah/weatherstory will not be updated.
* Water level forecast services will be degraded due to a less
frequent update cycle. Forecasts will remain at
https://water.noaa.gov/wfo/rah through this period.
* NWS Raleigh will remain operational and staffed while AWIPS
is offline, taking public and partner phone calls, communicating
via social media, and performing other functions that can be
completed without AWIPS.
We apologize for any inconvenience. Please direct any questions
to Jonathan Blaes at jonathan.blaes@noaa.gov
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