SEC Space Weather Products on
NWS Direct Broadcast Systems
including NOAA Weather Wire Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) provides Direct Broadcast Systems that distribute emergency weather conditions and forecasts to North America and parts of Central and South America. In 1996, the Space Environment Center (SEC) began distributing Space Weather products on NWS direct broadcast systems. SEC currently issues 24 space weather alerts and 12 space weather products on these systems. These products are also available from SEC via Internet connections and e-mail.

The table below links to the web products. Links that start with the /ftpdir/ path can be accessed via Anonymous FTP: ftp.sec.noaa.gov, or ftp2.sec.noaa.gov. Use the web URL shown below (/ftpdir/latest/curind.txt) and replace the path ("/ftpdir/latest/") with an FTP change directory command ("cd pub/latest/") and get the filename ("get curind.txt").

NWS space weather products on the SEC Web and FTP servers
Title
Readme
Update
Latest
Older
Archive
As Conditions Warrant
SEC Space Weather Alerts; watches, warnings, alerts, and summaries
when issued
Space Weather Advisory Bulletins
when issued
no

Daily or less

Daily Space Weather Values---10cm solar radio flux; SWO sunspot number, area, and new regions; Stanford solar mean field; GOES x-ray background flux; and x-ray and optical flare counts, GOES proton and electron flux; neutron monitor % of background; Fredericksburg, Boulder, College, and est. Planetary A&K indices
hourly
3-hourly WWV Geophysical Alert Message
3 hours
no
3-day Space Weather Predictions
after 2200UT
no
Space Weather Event Reports
0250UT
Summary of Space Weather Observations
after 0030UT
Daily Space Weather Summary and Forecast
(the NWS product is a subset of this product)
after 2200UT

Weekly

7-day Space Weather Highlights and 27-day Space Weather Forecast
Tuesdays
none
27-day Outlook -- 10cm Flux and Ap Predictions
Tuesdays
none
Space Weather Advisory Outlook
Tuesdays
no
Feb 11, 2004