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Technical Implementation Notice 14-49 Corrected
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
806 AM EDT Tue Jan 27 2014 

To:       Subscribers:
          -Family of Services
          -NOAA Weather Wire Service
          -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
          -NOAAPORT
          -Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

From:     Timothy McClung
          Chief, Science Plans Branch
          Office of Science and Technology

Subject:  Corrected: Multi-Radar, Multi-Sensor System Products
          Added to SBN and NOAAPORT Effective November 24, 2014

Corrected an error in the cccc code which should be KWNR not KNWR

On or about Tuesday, February 17, 2015, beginning at 1500 
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), selected products from the 
Multi-Radar, Multi-Sensor (MRMS) System produced by the National 
Centers for Environmental Prediction will be added to the 
Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) and NOAAPORT. MRMS began 
operational production of GRIB2 formatted products on September 
29, 2014.

MRMS is a system with automated algorithms that quickly 
intelligently integrate data streams from multiple radars, 
surface and upper air observations, lightning detection systems, 
satellite and forecast models. MRMS generates a high resolution 
3D radar mosaic and related 2D severe weather products for NWP 
model data assimilation and aviation applications. It also 
produces a suite of quantitative precipitation estimation 
products for the monitoring and warnings of floods and flash 
floods in support of comprehensive hydrologic ecosystem modeling. 
Numerous two-dimensional multiple-sensor products offer 
assistance for hail, wind, tornado, quantitative precipitation 
estimation forecasts, convection, icing and turbulence diagnosis. 
A product reference guide and training for users are available 
from the NWS Warning Decision Training Branch website at

http://www.wdtb.noaa.gov/courses/mrms.

Most MRMS products are generated on a 1km grid over the 
Contiguous United States (CONUS) domain and updated as frequently 
as every 2 minutes. Data volume will vary, depending on the 
current meteorological conditions, but could be as high as 14GB 
per day or 13MB every 2 minutes. Due to the large data volumes 
this system generates, users who do not wish to receive MRMS 
products are advised to filter out the applicable WMO headers 
from their NOAAPORT feed.

WMO Headers and official WMO title for the new products are as 
follows:

YAUC01   Composite Reflectivity
YAUC02   Composite Reflectivity Height
YAUC03   Composite Reflectivity [0-4 km]
YAUD01   Radar Quality Index
YAUD02   Seamless Hybrid Scan Reflectivity
YAUL01   Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Density (1, 5, 15, 30 min.)
YAUL02   Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Probability (0-30 min.)
YAUM03   Probability of Warm Rain (POWR)
YAUP01   Surface Precipitation Type
YAUP02   Instantaneous Radar Precipitation Rate
YAUP03   Radar 1H, 3H, 6H, 12H, 24H, 48H, 72H QPE
YAUP04   Local Gauge Bias Corrected 1H, 3H, 6H, 12H, 24H, 48H,
           72H QPE
YAUP06   Mountain Mapper 1H, 3H, 6H, 12H, 24H, 48H, 72H QPE
YAUQ01   Base Reflectivity
YAUS04   Low-Level Rotation Tracks (60 and 1440 min. accum.)
YAUS06   Mid-Level Rotation Tracks (60 and 1440 min. accum.)
YAUS10   Maximum Estimated Size of Hail (MESH)
YAUS11   MESH Tracks (60 and 1440 min. accum.)
YAUS13   Vertically Integrated Liquid (VIL)
YAUS15   Vertically Integrated Ice (VII)
YAUS16   18, 30, 50, and 60 dBZ Echo Top (ET)
YAUS17   Height of 50dBZ Echo Above -20 degrees C
YAUS18   Height of 50dBZ Echo Above 0 degrees C
YAUS20   Height of 60dBZ Echo Above 0oC
YAUS21   Reflectivity at 0 degrees C, -10 degrees C, -20 degrees C
YAUS22   Reflectivity At Lowest Altitude (RALA)

CCCC = KWNR

In addition to NOAAPORT dissemination, MRMS products can be 
retrieved via Local Data Manager (LDM) directly from NCEP Central 
Operations. To learn more about this dissemination path please 
contact the POCs listed below. Additional technical information 
regarding the MRMS system can be found at 

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/mrms/

Information on WMO Headers and NCEP GRIB messages is online at:

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/on388/appendixa.html

For questions concerning the MRMS system, contact:

  Ken Howard
  National Severe Storms Lab (NSSL)
  Norman, OK 73072
  Phone: (405) 535-9863
  Email: kenneth.howard@noaa.gov

For questions regarding SBN and NOAAPORT activation contact:

  Scott Jacobs
  NCEP/NCO
  College Park, MD  20740
  Phone: (301) 683-3910
  Email:  scott.jacobs@noaa.gov

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

  http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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