Public Information Statement
Issued by NWS National HQ
Issued by NWS National HQ
300 NOUS41 KWBC 081400 PNSWSH Public Information Statement 24-70 National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD 900 AM EST Fri Nov 8 2024 To: Subscribers: -NOAA Weather Wire Service -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network -NOAAPort Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees From: Greg Schoor, Chief Marine, Tropical, and Tsunami Services Branch Subject: National Tsunami Warning Center Routine Communications Tests for the West Coast and Alaska Coast to Take Place on November 14, 2024 The NWS National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) and coastal NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) will perform a routine monthly tsunami communication test to ensure end-to-end readiness of NWS dissemination software and hardware on Thursday, November 14, 2024. The intended recipients of these communication tests include designated national focal points, state/territorial warning points, coastal WFOs, U.S. Coast Guard and critical military dissemination points. Valid Time Event Code (VTEC) for the test messages will start with the /T fixed identifier (versus /O for operational messages). To provide additional assurance that a test message is not inadvertently distributed as an actual Warning/Advisory/Watch product, the Event Tracking Numbers (ETNs) for the test messages will begin with 9 as the leading digit of the four-character code. The text products affected by routine monthly tsunami communication testing are the national tsunami products issued under the following Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) Product Identifiers (PILs) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Identifiers (IDs): NTWC Product AWIPS PIL WMO ID ------------ --------- ------ Segmented Tsunami W/W/A for West Coast/BC/Alaska TSUWCA WEPA41 Public Tsunami W/W/A for West Coast/BC/Alaska TSUAK1 WEAK51 Routine tsunami communications testing will continue monthly. WFOs participating in the national monthly tsunami communications test are listed below by NWS Region: NWS Alaska Region: Anchorage, AK (AFC) Juneau, AK (AJK) NWS Western Region: Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEW) Portland, OR (PQR) Medford, OR (MFR) Eureka, CA (EKA) San Francisco, CA (MTR) Los Angeles, CA (LOX) San Diego, CA (SGX) For more information, please contact: Corina Allen NWS Tsunami Program Manager corina.allen@noaa.gov National Public Information Statements are online at: https://www.weather.gov/notification/