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NWSBot Information

The nwsbot is a computer program that provides text summaries and web links to a number of products issued by the NWS.

NWSBot Products + Channels Information

This information is current as of 7 Oct 2013.

NWSBot routes summaries of NWS issued text products into named channels. These channels may be simply thought of as a collection of similiar products. Chatrooms can be dynamically configured to subscribe to these channels via in-room administrative commands directed at the nwsbot user.

Products and Their Channel Names

The following table provides the channel name used for each product. The "XXX" in the listing represents the call sign of the issuing office without the leading K or P. For example, Topeka Kansas is TOP. If the channel name is only XXX, it is a part of the standard suite of products for that office and can not be disabled on an individual basis. Eventually, most all products will be placed into their own channels.

If the string "ZZZ" is used, this denotes the channel identifier uses the AFOS PIL found within the product. This is done to support some products that use a AFOS PIL that have a three character identifier that does not match the WMO header product source. For example, the Des Moines Iowa NWS office (DMX) issues a Record Event Report (RER) for Waterloo, Iowa. The AFOS PIL for this product is RERALO, so that is the channel ID used and not RERDMX.

Channel	Product	Directive
H-VTEC and P-VTEC Products
XXX and CFWXXX	CFW - Coastal Hazzard Message
XXX and EWWXXX	EWW - Eye Wall Warning
XXX and FFAXXX	FFA - Areal Flood Watch
XXX and FFSXXX	FFS - Flash Flood Statement
XXX and FFWXXX	FFW - Flash Flood Warning
XXX and FLSXXX	FLS - Flood Statement
XXX and FLWXXX	FLW - Flood Warning
XXX and FWWXXX	FWW - Fire Weather Warning
XXX and HLSXXX	HLS - Hurricane Local Statement
XXX and MWSXXX	MWS - Marine Weather Statement
MWWXXX	MWW - Marine Weather Warning : This product does not default to the XXX channel like many other VTEC products due to the noisey nature of this product. Consider the listing below of per VTEC phenomena and significance channels for this product. For example, SC.Y.XXX for small craft advisories.	10-3
XXX and NPWXXX	NPW - Non-Precipitating Warning
RFWXXX	RFW - Red Flag Warning
XXX and SMWXXX	SMW - Special Marine Warning
XXX and SVRXXX	SVR - Severe Thunderstorm Warning
XXX and SVSXXX	SVS - Severe Weather Statement
XXX and TCVXXX	TCV - Hurricane Product
XXX and TORXXX	TOR - Tornado Warning
XXX and TSUXXX	TSU - Tsunami Watch/Warning
XXX and WCNXXX	WCN - Watch by County
XXX and WSWXXX	WSW - Winter Weather Warning
PP.S	Special Channel for all VTEC products grouped by phenomena.significance (example: TO.W tornado warnings)
PP.S.UGC	VTEC product for a given UGC (county/zone) phenomena.significance.ugc (example: TO.W.CAC071 tornado warnings for San Bernardino County)
PP.S.XXX	VTEC product for a given WFO phenomena.significance.ugc (example: TO.W.SGX tornado warnings for San Diego)
UGC	All VTEC products for a given UGC (county/zone) (example: CAC071 All VTEC products for San Bernardino County)
Local Office Products
ADAXXX	ADA - Administrative Message
ADMXXX	ADM - Administrative Message
XXX and ADRst	ADR - Administrative Message
AFDXXX and AFDXXX.TITLE	AFD - Area Forecast Discussion actual AFD content is presented in channels based on the title header for each AFD section (spaces replaced by underscores). Example) AFDXXX.FIRE_WEATHER
AQIXXX	AQI - Ground Level Ozone Forecast
AWUXXX	AWU - Area Weather Update
AWWXXX	AWW - Airport Weather Warning
AVAXXX	AVA - Avalanche Watch
XXX	AVW - Avalanche Warning
XXX	AQA - Air Quality Alert
XXX and CAEst	CAE - Child Amber Alert (a channel per state)
XXX	CDW - Civil Danger Warning
XXX	CEM - Civil Emergency Message
CGRXXX	CGR - Coastal Weather Observations
CLIYYY	CLI - Daily Climate Report, not the YYY used is from the AFOS PIL and not the WMO header.
WMOID#.KXXX	CWA - Center Weather Advisory (CWA)
CWFXXX	CWF - Coastal Waters Forecast
XXX	DGT - Drought Statement
DSAAT	DSA - Tropical Distrubance Statement
ESFXXX	ESF - Hydrological Outlook
EQIXXX	EQIAT1 - Earthquake Statement
XXX	EQR - Earthquake Report
XXX	EQW - Earthquake Warning
XXX	EVI - Evacuation Immediate
XXX	FFW - Flash Flood Warning (non H-VTEC)
XXX	FRW - Fire Warning
FTMrad and FTMXXX	FTM - Free Text Message, where "rad" is the RADAR identifier if it is used in the AFOS PIL, the issuing center is available as well.
FWAXXX	FWA - Fire Weather Administrative Message
FWFXXX	FWF - Fire Weather Planning Forecast
FWSXXX	FWS - Fire Weather Spot Forecast
GLFXX	GLF - Open Lake Forecast
XXX	HLS - Hurricane Local Statement
HCMXXX	HCM - Hydrological Coordination Message
HMDXXX	HMD - Hydrometeorlogical Discussion
XXX	HMW - Hazardous Materials Warning
HPAXXX	HPA - High Pollution Advisory
HWOXXX or HWOXXX.NONE	HWO - Hazardous Weather Outlook , if both day 1 and days 2-7 call for no widespread severe (10-517 4.3.3e), then it goes to the .NONE channel	10-517
HYDXXX	HYD - Supplementary Temp and Precip
ICEXXX	ICE - Ice Outlook	10-330
XXX	LAE - Local Area Emergency
LCOXXX	LCO - Local Climatological Observation
XXX	LEW - Law Enforcement Warning
LSRXXX	LSR - Local Storm Report
LSR.ALL	LSR - Local Storm Report (all nationwide)
LSR.-----	LSR - Local Storm Report by report type, replace spaces with underscores
WMOID#.KXXX	MIS - Information Statement (CWSU)
NOWXXX	NOW - Nowcast
NSHXXX	NSH - Nearshore Marine Forecast
XXX	NUW - Nuclear Power Plant Warning
OAVXXX	OAV - Other Aviation Product
OMRXXX	OMR - Other Marine Reports
PFMXXX	PFM - Point Forecast Matrices
PNSXXX	PNS - Public Information Statement
XXX	PSH - Post Hurricane Report
QPSXXX	QPS - Quantitative Precipitation Forecast
RERYYY	RER - Record Event Report, note the YYY used is from the AFOS PIL and not the WMO header.
RECXXX	REC - Recreational Forecast
RRMXXX	RRM - Rainfall Storm Total
XXX	RHW - Radiological Hazard Warning
RFDXXX	RFD - Grassland Fire Danger
RTPXXX	RTP - Regional Temp and Precip
RVAXXX	RVA - Hydrologic Summary
RVDXXX	RVD - River and Lake Summary	10-923
XXX and RVFXXX and RVF.NWSLI	RVF - Deterministic Hydrologic Forecast : These products are available in three channel types, first is based on the WMO center ID, the second is based on the AFOS PIL and the third uses the NWSLI for the forecast point.	10-912
RVSXXX	RVS - Hydrologic Statement
RWSXXX	RWS - Regional Weather Summary
SFTXXX	SFT - State Forecast Tabular Product
SMFXXX	SMF - Smoke Management Weather Forecast
SPSXXX	SPS - Special Weather Statement
SRFXXX	SRF - Surf Zone Forecast
XXX	SPW - Shelter in Place
TAFXXX	TAF - Terminal Aerodrome Forecast
TIBXXX	TIB - Tsunami Information Statement
TIDXXX	TID - Tidal Data	10-320
XXX	TOE - Telephone Outage Emergency
WNDXXX[1]	Automated ASOS/AWOS Wind Gusts (50+ kts)
WSVXXX	WSV - Volcanic Ask Sigmet
WS#	WS[1-6] - Non Convective Sigmet	10-811
XXX	VAA - Volcanic Ash Advisory
XXX	VOW - Volcano Warning
WRKXXX	WRK - Work Product
ZFPXXX	ZFP - Zone Forecast Product
National Hurricane Center Products
URNT12.KNHC	Vortex Data Message
TCD(AT|EP) and TCD(AT|EP)#	Tropical Discussion (TCD)
TCM(AT|EP) and TCM(AT|EP)#	Tropical Storm Advisory/Discussion (TCM)
TCP(AT|EP) and TCP(AT|EP)#	Tropical Advisory (TCP)
TCU(AT|EP) and TCU(AT|EP)#	Tropical Cyclone Update (TCU)
TWOAT and TWOEP	Tropical Weather Outlook (TWO)
Storm Prediction Center Products
XXX	Convective Watches (SEL) routed spatially to WFO and CWSU rooms
SWOMCD.XXX and SWOMCD	Mesoscale Discussions (SWOMCD) based on attention WFO, RFC line and spatially routed to CWSU rooms
XXX	Day1 Convective Outlook (SWODY1)
DAY1TSTM.XXX	Day1 Convective Outlook [General Thunder Outlook] (SWODY1) * only if area is also not under slight or higher risk
DY1FWXXXX	Day1 - Fire Outlooks from SPC
DY2FWXXXX	Day2 - Fire Outlooks from SPC
Weather Prediction Center Products
FFGMPD.XXX and FFGMPD	Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion (FFGMPD) based on attention WFO, RFC line and spatially routed to CWSU rooms
National Center Products, routed spatially
QPFERD.XXX and QPFERD	Hydrometeorological Prediction Center Excessive Rainfall Discussion
XXX	SPENES - NESDIS Satellite Precipitation Discussion
SPOTTERNETWORK and SN.XXX	SpotterNetwork Reports
Special Website Syndication Channels
GCAST.XXX	Graphicast Posted to the Website
NEWS.XXX	Top News Posted to the Website
Aviation Products
UA.XXX and UA.PIREP	Routine Pilot Reports (PIREPS)
UUA.XXX and UUA.PIREP	Urgent Pilot Reports (PIREPS)
Non-AFOS Products (CWSU, Canadian, etc)
WMOCODE.ORIGIN	Examples: FQCN11.CWVR, FAUS20.KZKC
	Please contact NWSChat Admin Team if you have other WMO Codes you would like to see added.

¹ The "WND" channel is special in that when automated ASOS and AWOS stations gust to 50 knots or greater, an alert is sent to the channel WNDXXX (where XXX is the Weather Forecast Office call letters, not ASOS call sign).

Automated Error Reporting

NWSBot will relay error messages to the appropriate channels when any of these processing failures occur:

• Invalid timestamp in the product header
• A VTEC product failed to contain a valid VTEC string
• An unknown NWSLI location was found in a H-VTEC product
• A text product that does not contain a $$
• A text product that contains lowercase letters
• A text product contains lines longer than 69 characters
• A text product with an invalid AWIPS ID in the CI
• A text product's seperator code ($$ or &&) must be isolated
• A product doesn't have a blank line after the CI
• A product contains the tab ASCII character.
• Local Storm Report contains an invalid event timestamp.
• Local Storm Report contains undocumented event tracking numbers.

These error messages can be followed in the "errors" chatroom on NWSChat.