Subject: Critical Weather Day has been declared...Space Shuttle launch
Tuesday June 16 2009

A Critical Weather Day (CWD) period will be initiated at 0900Z Tuesday
June 16th, 2009 and will expire at 1005Z Wednesday June 17th, 2009.

NCEP, NWSTG, NWS Southern Region and the NCF will participate in this
CWD to ensure a reliable flow of data. The CWD is in support of
forecast
operations concerning the Space Shuttle launch.

Also, users can get an updated CWD status on the NCEP WEB page:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/cwd/

Michael Wooldridge - SDM