Anyone know why the HPC did the 11AM and 5PM packages for Kate? Is there some off-site meeting for the TPC, downsizing, or communication failure? Are they transitioning responsibilities?
MW
What's the Deal with the HPC?
Moderator: S2k Moderators
Forum rules
The posts in this forum are NOT official forecasts and should not be used as such. They are just the opinion of the poster and may or may not be backed by sound meteorological data. They are NOT endorsed by any professional institution or STORM2K. For official information, please refer to products from the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service.
What's the Deal with the HPC?
0 likes
-
HurricaneQueen
- S2K Supporter
- Posts: 1011
- Age: 79
- Joined: Sat Oct 12, 2002 7:36 pm
- Location: No. Naples, Fl (Vanderbilt Beach area)
-
Stormcenter
- S2K Supporter
- Posts: 6684
- Joined: Wed Sep 03, 2003 11:27 am
- Location: Houston, TX
Very strange indeed
Very strange indeed. Maybe there is something internal fighting going on, LOL!!!! NHC staff might have all taken a sick day.
0 likes
Why I'm Puzzled
Here's why I'm super puzzled.
At the storm spotter meeting a few months ago Jim Lushine, the Watch/Warning coordinator from the MFL office said that as of 9/30/03 responsibilities for issuing Torndado watches would shift from the SPC to the local offices. Yet...I've seen nothing from any official source on that.
Now...all of a sudden Tropical forecasts are getting written from the HPC on the same date that this other change is scheduled.
Finally...recently...stuff is starting to come in under this header which I can also find nothing about:
http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/text/ ... XXX50.KNHC
This could all be a coincidence and thay're running on some backup test or something...but this all smells weird to me.
MW
At the storm spotter meeting a few months ago Jim Lushine, the Watch/Warning coordinator from the MFL office said that as of 9/30/03 responsibilities for issuing Torndado watches would shift from the SPC to the local offices. Yet...I've seen nothing from any official source on that.
Now...all of a sudden Tropical forecasts are getting written from the HPC on the same date that this other change is scheduled.
Finally...recently...stuff is starting to come in under this header which I can also find nothing about:
http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/text/ ... XXX50.KNHC
This could all be a coincidence and thay're running on some backup test or something...but this all smells weird to me.
MW
0 likes
-
cycloneye
- Admin
- Posts: 145811
- Age: 68
- Joined: Thu Oct 10, 2002 10:54 am
- Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
MW the 5:30 outlook was made by the TPC folks not by HPC so they returned to normal. 
0 likes
Visit the Caribbean-Central America Weather Thread where you can find at first post web cams,radars
and observations from Caribbean basin members Click Here
and observations from Caribbean basin members Click Here
-
george_r_1961
- S2K Supporter
- Posts: 3171
- Age: 64
- Joined: Sat Oct 12, 2002 9:14 pm
- Location: Carbondale, Pennsylvania