Subject: Administrative: ESPC Notification (Possible LRIT (Low This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070707070800010100000105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Update: *Length of Outage is updated.* Topic: *Possible LRIT (Low Rate Image Transmission)**East Broadcast Outage *Date/Time**Issued:*March 27th, 2012 1520 UTC *Product(s) or Data Impacted: *All LRIT data products on the LRIT East Broadcasts including GOES Imagery, GOES DCS and EMWIN re-broadcasts and environmental products. *Date/Time of Initial Impact: *March 28th, 2012 1400 UTC* * ** *Date/Time of Expected End:* March 28th, 2012 1430 UTC *Length of Outage:*There may be a short (less than 10 minutes) outage between 1400 UTC and 1430 UTC on March 28th, 2012. It is anticipated that no or almost do data will be lost. No extended outage is expected but an outage of up to 30 minutes is possible.*** * *Details and Specifics of Change: *The LRIT East Broadcast will be interrupted due to switching to the back-up East LRIT system on March 28th. We will remain on the back-up string until further notice. This change is necessary to facilitate server diagnostics on the LRIT D4-East1 servers that suffered a hardware problem earlier this month. *Contact Information for Further Information:* ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 ** *Web Site(s) for applicable information:* Users can get CWD status on the NCEP WEB page: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/cwd/ --------------070707070800010100000105 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Update: Length of Outage is updated.

Topic: Possible LRIT (Low Rate Image Transmission) East Broadcast Outage

Date/Time Issued: March 27th, 2012 1520 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All LRIT data products on the LRIT East Broadcasts including GOES Imagery,
GOES DCS and EMWIN re-broadcasts and environmental products.

Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 28th, 2012 1400 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: March 28th, 2012 1430 UTC

Length of Outage: There may be a short (less than 10 minutes) outage between 1400 UTC and 1430 UTC
on March 28th, 2012. It is anticipated that no or almost do data will be lost. No extended outage is expected but an
outage of up to 30 minutes is possible.

Details and Specifics of Change: The LRIT East Broadcast will be interrupted due to switching to the back-up East LRIT
system on March 28th. We will remain on the back-up string until further notice. This change is necessary to facilitate server
diagnostics on the LRIT D4-East1 servers that suffered a hardware problem earlier this month.

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information: Users can get CWD status on the NCEP WEB page:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/cwd/

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