2018 NEWS-e Status Updates

This page includes all daily realtime update emails as well as any issues, delays, etc.
If you would like to be part of the NEWS-e email list and be sent this information directly, please email jessica.choate@noaa.gov
All information on this page is valid at time of it's publication.

Friday, July 20th, 2018

This will be the final update for the HWT/HMT realtime runs for the NEWS-e, as our testbed responsibilities conclude today.

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Thursday, July 19th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Wednesday, July 18th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Tuesday, July 17th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Monday, July 16th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Friday, July 13th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Wednesday, July 11th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Tuesday, July 10th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Monday, July 9th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Friday, June 29th, 2018

FFaIR will break from July 2nd-July 6th. During this time, you can assume that if an update email is not sent then NEWS-e will not be running in realtime.

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Thursday, June 28th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Wednesday, June 27th, 2018

Today's Domain

”We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

Update:Due to what look to be some additional issues on Jet, likely related to the maintenance already scheduled, it is doubtful that NEWS-e data will be available in real-time today. We hope to at least generate the forecasts on a delay so they can be verified tomorrow for the FFaIR experiment. We hope to return to a normal schedule tomorrow.

Update:Due to some system work on Jet, the NEWS-e forecasts will be likely be delayed today. I will provide a more definitive time estimate when forecasts will start appearing when I can.

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Monday, June 25th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Friday, June 22nd, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e WPC Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/project/wof/news-e/wpc/

Thursday, June 21st, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/wpc/

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/wpc/

Tuesday, June 19th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/wpc/

Monday, June 18th, 2018

Today begins NEWS-e's participation in the Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment (FFaIR). Domains will be chosen based on the experiment's flash flood focus. Specific products have been created for the experiment so you will see the viewer link below will lead you to the WPC specific page. Forecasts will also begin earlier at 1800 UTC, end at 0400 UTC, and each forecast will be 6 hours long.

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1830 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/wpc/

Friday, June 1st, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Tuesday, May 29th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Monday, May 28th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Friday, May 25th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Thursday, May 24th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018

Today's Domain

We are expecting a 20-30 minute delay in the beginning of the 1900 UTC forecast today and will notify you if any other issues occur.

Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018

Due to filesystem problems on Jet, HRRRE BCs/ICs will not be provided today and therefore NEWS-e realtime runs will be DOWN. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Monday, May 21st, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Saturday, May 19th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Friday, May 18th, 2018

Update: There are currently some issues with the MRMS feed that we use to produce our gridded reflectivity observations that are assimilated in the NEWSe. We hope that the issues are resolved soon, but if not, we would expect some degradation in the NEWSe forecasts. I will update if the situation changes, but we already don’t have the reflectivity observations for the 1800, 1815, and 1830 UTC cycles.

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Weekly Verificatin

The verification plots show performance diagrams of NEWS-e composite reflectivity and UH track skill at 1 and 2 hours of forecast time for (gray) 2017 cases and (orange) 2018 cases. Scores have been computed by comparing composite reflectivity and UH track objects in NEWS-e forecasts to corresponding observations in MRMS data. Forecast objects are considered 'hits' if they occur within approximately 30 km and 20 minutes of an observed object. Scores are aggregated for each member and every forecast issued for a given case and the overall mean is plotted on the performance diagram. Numbers in each marker for 2018 cases correspond to the dates listed in the lower right corner of the left panels.

Thursday, May 17th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Wednesday, May 16th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Monday, May 14th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Friday, May 11th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Thursday, May 10th, 2018

Today's Domain

The primary reason for this domain choice is due to FAA considerations in the high traffic northeast air corridor.

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Wednesday, May 9th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Tuesday, May 8th, 2018

Today's Domain

NEWS-e is DOWN today for work on JET.

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Monday, May 7th, 2018

NEWS-e will be DOWN Tuesday, May 8th.

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Friday, May 4th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

The Norman NWS office coordinated with NEWS-e developers to provide experimental short-term outlooks of severe thunderstorm, tornado, and flash flood potential in storms in western and central Oklahoma.

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

The above shows the evolution of NEWS-e 90th percentile products of 2-5 km UH at various initialization times, all valid at 0100 UTC. ​The black star is located just south of Tescott, KS where a supercell produced a large tornado on May 1st, approximately between 0030-0100 UTC.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

Update (2:40 PM CDT): Due to complications with initial conditions for NEWS-e's forecast, the normal start time of 1:30 has now been pushed back to approximately 3:15. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Update (1:20 PM CDT): Today's forecast will be delayed- more information to follow

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Today's Domain

We expect forecasts to start appearing on the NEWS-e Realtime Viewer at approximately 1930 UTC.
Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Yesterday's Verification

Verification is not available for yesterday's NEWS-e run.

Friday, April 27th, 2018

Welcome to the 2018 NEWS-e realtime season! You are receiving this email because you have shown interest in staying up to date on NEWS-e realtime activities. These emails are planned to be sent out regularly during realtime operations to inform you of NEWS-e's current running status, the chosen domain, and any technical issues, such as a delayed start.
We are excited about the improvements and changes that have been made since the 2017 season but it is important to remember that NEWS-e is still an experimental system and issues are still expected along the way.
A new web interface to view the NEWS-e forecasts was implemented at the beginning of this month. So, if you have not changed the URL bookmarked on your computer, the new URL can be found below.
Throughout the severe weather season, if you found NEWS-e particularly useful, interesting, or disappointing, we would love to hear about your experiences. Please feel free to email myself or patrick.skinner@noaa.gov with these comments.
2018 Viewer: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/wof/news-e/realtime/

Today's Domain

​Today's domain is centered over Columbus, OH. Due to a lack of severe weather, this domain was chosen to hopefully capture convection within the general thunderstorm contour issued by the SPC.

Yesterday's Verification

Assuming a normal operating schedule, we will aim to include information on the previous forecast's verification.