<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">NOAA/NOS nowCOAST </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">Status</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">Message</span><div style="font-size:12.8px">830 AM EDT Wed Jun 14, 2017</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Due to a Critical Weather Day, the implementation of the new version had to postponed to Monday, June 19, 2017.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Effective on or about June 19, 2017, a new version of NOAA's nowCOAST</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">(</span><a href="https://nowcoast.noaa.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext">https://nowcoast.noaa.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">) will implemented. The new version will incorporate the </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">National Weather Service’s new Storm Surge Watch and Warning with other NWS Watches, Warnings and Advisories for long duration events on nowCOAST's map service, wwa_meteoceanhydro_<wbr>longduration_hazards_time. The spatial resolution of the storm surge watch and warnings on nowCOAST will be at the original 2.5 km (1.6 mi) resolution. The storm surge watch and warnings will be also be available via the nowCOAST map viewer.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">The storm surge watch and warnings will be issued by NWS to highlight areas along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the continental United States that have a significant risk of life-threatening coastal inundation from ongoing or potential tropical cyclone, subtropical cyclone, or post-tropical cyclone events. Detailed information about the NWS Storm Surge Watches/Warnings can be found at</span><a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/20170123_pa_SSWW.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/<wbr>20170123_pa_SSWW.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""> and </span><a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/20170309_pa_2017SeasonChanges.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/<wbr>20170309_pa_2017SeasonChanges.<wbr>pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">.</span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">In addition, the depiction of tropical cyclone forecast information on maps available from the nowCOAST map service wwa_meteocean_<wbr>tropicalcyclones_<wbr>trackintensityfcsts_time will change effective on or about June 19, 2017. These changes were made due in part to modifications in NHC GIS data services and graphics depicting NHC’s 2-Day and 5-day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook for Active Tropical Cyclones and to promote more consistency with NHC products. Additional information about NHC changes can be found at</span><a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/new-tc-graphics/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/new-<wbr>tc-graphics/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">.</span></p></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Summary of changes:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">- The 5-day cone of uncertainty representing the uncertainty in the probable forecast track of a tropical cyclone will be depicted in semi-transparent white.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">- The forecast positions for remnants, post tropical, tropical depression, tropical storms and hurricanes will be depicted with new symbols and in black.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">- The new symbol for hurricanes will contain the forecasted Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale Category (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">- The observed (best track) positions for tropical cyclones will be depicted in white.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">- The forecast track for tropical cyclones will be depicted with a dashed blue line. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">- The tropical storm warnings along the immediate coastline will be depicted with a solid blue line.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">NOAA’s nowCOAST provides coastal intelligence on present and future</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">environmental conditions for coastal and maritime users by</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">integrating data and information from across NOAA and other</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">federal and state agencies. nowCOAST was developed by</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">NOAA/National Ocean Service’s Coast Survey Development</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Laboratory, and is hosted on NOAA’s Integrated Dissemination</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Program (IDP) infrastructure where it is monitored 24 x 7 by</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Consolas"> </font></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";font-size:10.5pt">NWS/NCEP Central Operations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">For questions concerning nowCOAST, please contact <a href="mailto:nowcoast.team@noaa.gov" target="_blank">nowcoast.team@noaa.gov</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">For questions concerning NWS Storm Surge Watches and Warnings please contact:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Consolas"> </font></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";font-size:10.5pt"><a href="mailto:nhc.public.affairs@noaa.gov" target="_blank">nhc.public.affairs@noaa.gov</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><br></p></div><div><br></div><div>John Kelley</div><div>nowCOAST Project Manager</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Coastal Marine Modeling Branch/Coast Survey Development Lab</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">NOAA/National Ocean Service</div>
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