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Public Information Statement 24-71
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: NWS to Issue National Tsunami Warning Center Routine
Communications Tests for the East and Gulf Coast on November 12,
2024

The NWS National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) and coastal NWS
Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) will perform routine monthly
tsunami communication tests to ensure end-to-end readiness of
NWS dissemination software and hardware on Tuesday, November 12,
2024 for East and Gulf Coast states.

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 Codes (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, 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 U.S.  TSUAT1  WEXX20
Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast and
Canada East Coast

Public Tsunami W/W/A for U.S.  TSUATE  WEXX30
Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast and
Canada East Coast

Routine tsunami communications testing will continue monthly.
WFOs taking part in the national monthly tsunami communications
test are listed below by NWS Region:

NWS Eastern Region:
Boston, MA (BOX)
Caribou, ME (CAR)
Charleston, SC (CHS)
Gray/Portland, ME (GYX)
Mount Holly, NJ (PHI)
Newport/Morehead City, NC (MHX)
New York, NY (OKX)
Sterling, VA (LWX)
Wakefield, VA (AKQ)
Wilmington, NC (ILM)

NWS Southern Region:
Brownsville, TX (BRO)
Corpus Christi, TX (CRP)
Houston, TX (HGX)
Jacksonville, FL (JAX)
Key West, FL (KEY)
Lake Charles, LA (LCH)
Melbourne, FL (MLB)
Miami, FL (MFL)
Mobile, AL (MOB)
New Orleans, LA (LIX)
Tallahassee, FL (TAE)
Tampa Bay Area, FL (TBW)

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/