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DEMONSTRATES ONE WAY NWS WEATHER WARNINGS CAN BE ENHANCED BY WORKING
COOPERATIVELY WITH LOCAL AGENGIES VESTED IN EARLY FLOOD DETECTION, WARNING AND
NOTIFICATION. THE WEATHER BULLETIN TO THE RIGHT IS AN ACTUAL WARNING ISSUED BY THE NWS FORECAST OFFICE IN BOULDER, COLORADO. NEW NWS AWIPS TECHNOLOGY WAS USED TO GENERATE THIS PRODUCT. THE WARNING WAS AUTOMATICALLY RELAYED TO AN ALERT BASE STATION IN DENVER OPERATED BY THE URBAN DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT. GRAPHICAL MAPS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY DERIVED. THIS FUNCTIONALITY MAY ULTIMATELY BE MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE LDAD COMPONENT OF AWIPS. |
06/23/1999-20:16:27 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AFOS PRODUCT ************************************************************************** ZCZC DENSVRDEN TTAA00 KDEN 240211 COC005-031-035-039-240245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... * UNTIL 845 PM MDT * AT 804 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO... HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCHES IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. GARD...WFO DENVER LAT...LON 3961 10503 3925 10470 3944 10443 3972 10462 |
| THE CORRESPONDING WARNING AREA MAP BELOW WAS PRODUCED BY THE URBAN DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT'S ALERT BASE STATION & WEATHER BULLETIN BOARD. THE LATITUDE/LONGITUDE COORDINATES FROM THE ABOVE TEXT WAS USED TO CREATE THE BLUE SHADED POLYGON OVERLAY. TO ZOOM IN FOR A CLOSER LOOK AT THE WARNING AREA, CLICK ON THE # SYMBOL IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE BLUE SHADED AREA. TO SEE HOW THE AFOS TEXT MESSAGE MIGHT APPEAR TO AN ALERT BASE STATION USER, CLICK ON THE $ SYMBOL. |
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