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Strong to Severe Thunderstorms from the Southern Plains to the Ohio Valley; Heavy Rain and Flooding in the Southern Plains

Severe thunderstorms are expected from central Texas to middle Tennessee and Kentucky this afternoon into tonight. Large hail and damaging winds are the main threats. Heavy to excessive rainfall may produce areas of flooding today and tonight from central Texas into the lower Mississippi Valley.

Topic Description
General Description

EMWIN disseminates alerts, watches, warnings, observations, forecasts and climate products in text and image formats (see EMWIN Catalogs) via:

  1. Satellite broadcast:

    • GOES-19 (East), GOES-18 (West) High Rate Information Transmission (HRIT) broadcast.
    • Freq/channels: 1694.1-MHz / 20,21,22
  2. EMWIN FTP File Server:

    • Accessible on the public Internet.

      Systems Status information is manually updated M-F during Eastern Time business hours 8am-4pm.

Hardware
  1. Satellite broadcast reception:

    • reception characteristics (NESDIS)
    • Commercial HRIT satellite terminal
      (NESDIS)
    • Fabricated HRIT satellite terminals built with components and parts available on the open market. (Internet search "build goes-r receiver" for additional publishedinformation).
  2. EMWIN FTP File Server:

    PC/workstation/mobile device with public Internet access

Software
  1. Satellite broadcast:

    • Commercial HRIT satellite terminals are generally equipped with all the required software. Consult vendor for additional information.
    • Fabricated HRIT satellite terminals will require users to identify and acquire the necessary software. Information is available by searching the public Internet.Government information on "demonstration software" developed for HRIT/EMWIN is available here:
  2. EMWIN FTP File Server:

    Web browsers, commercial applications or scripting software programs (e.g., Perl) may be used to access and download products.

Format(s)
  1. Text Products are presented in WMO Bulletin format

    US products may include AWIPS Identifiers containing a descriptive product category code (see: ).

  2. Image Products are broadcast in their native file format with telltale file extensions:

    • JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format
    • PNG - Portable Network Graphics
    • GIF - Graphics Interchange Format

    Note: Products larger than 5 kilo-bytes in size are compressed into a .zip formatted file prior to broadcast and must be uncompressed to return the file to its original file format.

Monitoring
  1. The EMWIN product stream creation and EMWIN FTP archive file server operations are monitored by NOAA Central Operations (NCO), 博体育, 24x7.
  2. EMWIN satellite uplink and satellite broadcast services are monitor by NESDIS 24x7.
  3. EMWIN image product accountability is monitored by the Dissemination Systems Branch, 博体育, daily.
Access Information

EMWIN broadcast services are open and available to the public 24x7:

  1. EMWIN GOES-East/West satellite broadcast footprint: see NESDIS
  2. EMWIN GOES-East/West satellite broadcast reception: see NESDIS
  3. EMWIN FTP File Server on the public Internet - URL:

Documents
  1. HRIT/EMWIN Service Overview:

  2. Products on EMWIN broadcast services:

  3. Service description:

Alert Information

EMWIN disseminates national and international weather and water alerts and warnings, and US non-weather emergency message alerts. Refer to the EMWIN_Text_Product Catalog for a listing of product category codes (ref: ) and WMO product header included on the broadcast.

Special Needs

Users may interface their EMWIN receiving systems with separate commercial or user-developed applications and devices to address their specific special needs.

Issues
  1. The status of EMWIN broadcast services is updated manually during normal business hours on the Home Page.
  2. EMWIN service issues impacting user operations should be reported immediately to:

    Tech Control:

    Phone:
    301-683-1518
    or
    Email:
    SDM@noaa.gov
    and cc:
    nws.emwin.support@noaa.gov
  3. Questions regarding the broadcast products, adding or replacing broadcast products or broadcast product format should be addressed to: nws.emwin.support@noaa.gov
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