Subject: Administrative:: Critical Weather Day has Been Declared This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050200080006040404060300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: * Critical Weather Day has been declared.* Date/Time Issued**: *May 16, 2015 1048 UTC *Product(s) or Data Impacted:*N/A** *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* May 16, 2015 1200 UTC** *Date/Time of Expected End:*May 17, 2015**1200 UTC **** *Length of Outage:*Approx. 24 hours * * *Type:* Regional ** *Who: * NCEP, NWSTG, NCF, NWS Southern and Central Regions *Reason: *The NCEP Storm Prediction Center (SPC) is forecasting a MODERATE risk for severe weather for today and into tonight for " an outbreak of severe thunderstorms is expected across the Plains states Saturday into Saturday night...from parts of Nebraska southward to Texas. Risks will include very large hail, damaging wind gusts, and several tornadoes -- with a few likely to be significant/long-lived" per SPC. Heavy rainfall and flash flooding remain a possibility as well and is being closely monitored by NCEP WPC as well for today into tonight. Users can get CWD status on the NCEP WEB page: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/cwd/ *Contact Information for Further Information:* ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 or Senior Duty Meteorologist at _Sdm@noaa.gov_ at 301-683-1500 ** **This message was sent by ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov. You have been sent this and other notifications because you have opted in to receive it. If for any reason, you wish to unsubscribe, please contact ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880. Please note: it may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request. --------------050200080006040404060300 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic:  Critical Weather Day has been declared.

Date/Time Issued
May 16, 2015 1048 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  N/A

Date/Time of Initial Impact:   May 16, 2015  1200 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End:   May 17, 2015 1200 UTC  

Length of Outage:  Approx. 24 hours

Type:  Regional

Who:  NCEP, NWSTG, NCF,  NWS Southern and Central Regions

Reason:   The NCEP Storm Prediction Center (SPC)  is forecasting a MODERATE  risk for severe weather for today and into tonight for  " an outbreak of severe thunderstorms is expected across the Plains states Saturday into Saturday night...from parts of Nebraska southward to Texas. Risks will include very large hail, damaging wind gusts, and several tornadoes -- with a few likely to be significant/long-lived" per SPC.  Heavy rainfall and flash flooding remain a possibility as well and is being closely monitored by NCEP WPC as well for today into tonight.

Users can get CWD status on the NCEP WEB page:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/cwd/

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 or Senior Duty Meteorologist at Sdm@noaa.gov at 301-683-1500

This message was sent by ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov. You have been sent this and other notifications because you have opted in to receive it. If for any reason, you wish to unsubscribe, please contact ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880. Please note: it may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request.


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