ACWIN-SPC
Alachua County Weather Information Network
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) Bulletins
LIST PURPOSE
Welcome to the ACWIN-SPC listgroup!
This list is for the distribution of weather-related bulletins issued by the
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) only. No posting/discussions allowed.
The ACWIN-HPC list was created to aid in the dissemination of SPC-issued
weather-related bulletins and announcements to the residents of Alachua
County. The listgroup is subdivided into numerous "topics" to choose from -
each "topic" relating to a specific bulletin that can be turned on or off at
your own command. A list of the available bulletin topics is further below.
SUBSCRIPTION INFO
To subscribe to ACWIN-HPC, simply send an e-mail to
listserv@lists.ufl.edu
using the following single-line syntax in the message BODY (the subject may
be left blank):
SUBSCRIBE ACWIN-HPC firstname lastname
Thus, if your name was `John Doe' you would send the following to
listserv@lists.ufl.edu:
SUBSCRIBE ACWIN-HPC John Doe
AVAILABLE TOPICS
Here are the "topic" areas that are now available to choose from within the
ACWIN-HPC listgroup. First is the topic name (which happens to also
be the bulletin abbreviation), followed by the bulletin name.
- PMDDRK: US Drought Outlook Discussion
- PMDEPD: Preliminary Extended Forecast Discussion
- PMDHMD: Model Diagnostic Discussion
- PMDMRD: Prognostic Discussions for 6 To 10 And 8 To 14 Day Outlooks
- PMDSPD: Short Range Forecast Discussion
- PREEPD: Preliminary Extended Forecast Discussion
- QPFERD: Excessive Rainfall Discussion
- QPFPFD: Quantitative Precipitation Forecast
All new users are automatically subscribed to the following topics, by default:
QPFERD. However, you can turn any of them OFF if things seem to get just a
little too "busy" for you.
ADDING OR REMOVING TOPICS
SUBSCRIBING TO A TOPIC:
If ever you wanted to subscribe to a topic, you'd simply send an email to
the UF listserver (again, at listserv@lists.ufl.edu. Ignore the subject line. You
don't have to type anything into it at all.
In the BODY of the email, type the following:
SET ACWIN-HPC TOPICS +QPFERD
The above line would subscribe you to the "QPFERD" topic, which is the
"Severe Thunderstorm Warning" bulletin.
And you can subscribe to more than one topic at a time, too. If you wanted
to subscribe to ALL of the available topics within the listgroup, you would
send the following command:
SET ACWIN-HPC TOPICS: ALL
You can subscribe to multiple topics at once in a single command:
SET ACWIN-HPC TOPICS: +QPFERD +QPFPFD +PMDSPD
This would subscribe you to the three topics QPFERD, QPFPFD, and PMDSPD.
UNSUBSCRIBING FROM A TOPIC:
To unsubscribe from any topic, you'd do it all in reverse.
SET ACWIN-HPC TOPICS: -QPFERD
...would unsubscribe you from the QPFERD topic.
SET ACWIN-HPC TOPICS: -QPFERD -QPFPFD -PMDSPD
...would unsubscribe you from those three topics.
VIEWING LIST ARCHIVES
This list is archived. To view the archives, go to:
lists.ufl.edu/archives/acwin-hpc-l.html
OTHER COMMANDS AVAILABLE
The following commands are also available to list users. They may
be issued by sending a message to listserv@lists.ufl.edu, with the
command(s) in the body of the message. Each command must be on a
line by itself, but multiple commands may be included in a single
message. (The `Subject:' header of the e-mail is ignored.)
- To have a copy of the list sent to you in a file, use the command:
REVIEW listname
- To be sent more information on using LISTSERV, issue the command:
INFO GENINTRO
UNSUBSCRIBING
To unsubscribe from this list at any time, use the following single-
line syntax in an e-mail to listserv@lists.ufl.edu:
UNSUBSCRIBE ACWIN-HPC
Note that to unsubscribe does not require appending your first and
last name. As well, unsubscribe information will always be appended
to the bottom of each e-mail sent out from the list, so that you
don't have to worry about remembering it should you ever need it.
The listserver knows.
MORE INFORMATION
For further information on LISTSERV lists, please see the
LISTSERV
Online Owners Manuals and User Guides
COMMENTS REGARDING THIS LIST
We welcome your comments and suggestions about this list. Please send your
comments to the list owner at:
acwin@alachuaskywarn.org.
LIST OWNERS
This list was created on July 20th, 2009 by Todd Sherman/KB4MHH
(acemwin@alachuaskywarn.org).
Todd is the Coordinator of Alachua
County SKYWARN, which he also founded in August of 1996 (twelve years
ago as of 2009). Alachua Co. SKYWARN is a program created to teach the public
about the dangers of severe weather and how to identify and report it
properly to the authorities.
Todd is also the Founder and Project Manager of the
Alachua County EMWIN Project
(created in 2002). AC-EMWIN is basically a satellite ground station which main
purpose is for gathering the latest weather bulletins from the GOES-10 weather
satellite, and to redistribute those bulletins locally to the public at no cost
as a public service. We distribute the bulletins in abbreviated form to
cellphones, pagers, in full form to personal email, web pages, and on rare
occasion even to some FAX machines. Another one of the distribution methods
is via this and other listgroups. And we DO this...at NO charge, in
service to everyone: civlians, businessmen, students, teachers, doctors, lawyers, police,
fire/rescue, reporters...it doesn't matter.
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