# Presentation: 210480

## VTECStatus & Plan for Action

**National Partners Workshop**
**June 24, 2004**
**Jason Tuell**
**Office of Science and Technology**

## Overview

**Objective**
**Current status**
**Actions since the September Partner’s conference**
**Proposed schedule**
**Issues**
**Interaction with partners**
**Summary**

## Current status

**Software**
***Original VTEC implemented in AWIPS OB2 software***
***Revised VTEC updated in OB3.1***
***Deficiencies corrected in OB3.3***
**NWSI 10-1703**
***Updated with new specification and clarifications***
***Signed 28 May 2004***
**IOT&E complete****	**

## Changes since January O4

**Delay implementation of VTEC in Marine Forecasts and Warnings**
***Offshore waters forecast (OFF), Coastal waters forecast (CWF), Near shore waters forecast (NSH), Open Lakes Forecast (GLF) ***
***VTEC still to be implemented in Special Marine Warning (SMW), Marine Weather Statements (MWS), Coastal Flood Watch, Warnings, and Statements (CFW), Lakeshore Flood Warnings and Statements (CFW)***
**Change in schedule**

## IOT&E

**IOT&E conducted between 20 Apr through 14 May**
***Testers included service area leads, field forecasters and one Partner (Marvin Mcinnis)***
**74 TTRs**
***31 Critical***
***20 Major (Urgent)***
***5 Minor (Routine)***
***18 Watch items, potential enhancements, withdrawn or other***
**2 CONOPS issues**
**2 New Requirements**
***Segmentation of follow up statements***
***Head line time rounding requirements***
**19 Headline errors and standardization**
_**ALL**_** reproducible TTRs, headline errors and standardization will be corrected by 28 June**
**Segmented follow up statements for short fuse warnings will be allowed in OB3.3**

## IOT&E

| Application | Critical | Major | Minor | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Warngen | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| RiverPro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| WWA | 24 | 20 | 5 | 49 |

## Schedule Changes

**Revised schedule (presented January 2004)**
***OT&E 5 July – 30 August***
***Turn key on 1 Dec 2004***
**Driving force behind schedule changes**
***Performance problems in OB3 delayed development and testing***
***Errors discovered during IOT&E***
***Service back up and unique OCONUS requirements***
**Schedule change will allow **
***Correction of IOT&E deficiencies***
***Implementation of unique OCONUS requirements***
***Implementation of robust service back up capability***
***More coordination between the NWS and partners***

## Schedule

| Date | Milestone |
| --- | --- |
| VTEC/WBC OT&E PNS | NLT 3 June |
| OB3.3 Deployment start | 27 July |
| OT&E TRR | 20 August |
| OT&E  | 30 August – 8 October |
| OB4 SVR | 2 September |
| OB4 Deployment start | 8 September |
| OB4.x check in | 9 November |
| OT&E Evaluation Go/No Go | 9 November |
| VTEC/WBC Turn key PNS | 16 November |
| OB4 Deployment end | 6 January 05 |
| OB4.x Deployment end | 13 January 05 |
| VTEC/WBC turn key | 8 February 05 |

## ScheduleIssues – OT&E

**Watch-by-County, VTEC OT&E run concurrently**
***~20 VTEC sites***
***~20 WBC sites***
**Evaluation criteria defined in OT&E plan**
**Use of scripted scenarios for out-of-season products**
***Majority of long fuse products (winter weather, non-precipitation) to be tested using scripted scenarios***

## Products with VTEC

| Public Products |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SVR |
|  | Tornado warning | TOR |
|  | Winter Storm Watch | WSW |
|  | Non-Precipitation Warning | NPW |
|  | Severe Weather Statement | SVS |
|  | Watch County Notification | WCN |
|  | Watch Outline Message (7 July) | WOU |
|  | Fire Weather Watch/Red Flag Warning | RFW |
| Hydro Products |  |  |
|  | Flood Watch | FFA |
|  | Flash Flood Warning | FFW |
|  | Flood Warning | FLW |
|  | Flash Flood Statements | FFS |
|  | Flood Statements | FLS |

## Locally Generated Products

| Marine Products |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Special Marine Warning | SMW |
|  | Marine Weather Statements | MWS |
|  | Coast Flood Watch, Warning, Statement | CFW |
|  | Lakeshore Flood Warning, Statement | CFW |

## Partner-NWS Interaction

**Robert McLeod**
**Chief, Awareness Branch**
**Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services**

## Partner Interaction

**Must ensure adequate feedback on VTEC and other issues**
**Participation in OT&E is critical as learned in WBC**
***Planning and execution***
***Draft OT&E plan out for review***
**	****	****VTEC listserve/remailer to disseminate and share VTEC related information**
- Send comments to NWS.VTEC@noaa.gov

## Summary

**VTEC turn key 8 Feb 2005**
**OT&E late summer early fall**
**Conduct joint OT&E to determine whether we are jointly ready for VTEC February 2005**

**Work together to make VTEC a success!**