GFE Enhancement Request
Propagate User Headline Modifications
from
WFO Fairbanks, AK
POC: Jay Smith, jay.smith@noaa.gov, 907-458-3721
DESCRIPTION: National policy allows forecasters to provide geographic descriptor information to GFE generated headlines. This is an important capability in Alaska and the Western Region where zones are large and terrain is quite variable. Unfortunately, any additional information provided by a forecaster in a headline is lost on subsequent generation of the warning product. This requires the forecaster to add the additional information for each and every product run. To us, this seems woefully inefficient. Further, it can quite easily lead to inter-product inconsistency as the additional information can quite easily appear and disappear. This makes the products confusing to the customer, which is not good service. While it can be argued that the forecaster should never forget to propagate additional headline information manually, high operational tempo and information overload on the forecast floor often results in critical details like this being overlooked.
REQUESTED ENHANCEMENTS:
Hazards formatters should check to see if the previous hazard product had any forecaster additions for each headline and put any additions found in the appropriate headline for the current product. However, we do not feel that “cancel” or “expire” headlines need any of the additional information from the previous hazard product.
Non hazards formatters which display hazards headlines, e.g., ZFP product, should check the associated hazards product for any forecaster added headline information and put any additional information in its headline.
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