NBM Text Products Information

The NBM text bulletins take data from the gridded NBM forecasts and generate data for weather stations from the closest usable grid point. Bulletins are available for over 9,000 land and marine stations in the CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Oceanic-domains. Not all elements may be available for all stations. All regions (including both land and marine stations) are included in the same product.

Five different products are available: NBM Hourly (NBH, 1-25 hrs), NBM Short (NBS, 3-hourly, 6-72 hrs), NBM Extended (NBE, 12-Hourly, 24-192 hrs), NBM Super-Extended (NBX, 12-Hourly, 204-264 hrs), and NBM Probabilistic (NBP, 12-Hourly, 24-264 hrs). More information regarding these products and available stations can be found in the menu on the right, as well a link to the 4x daily text bulletins site (where full hourly data via NOMADS is also linked).

NBM v5.0 Text Products Changes - NOMADS

These tables display the additions and removals made to the NBM text products suite in version 5.0. Note that there are some differences at stations due to changing inputs to generate bulletins. denotes additions while denotes removals.

NBM Extended (NBE)

Elements Description Region (all unless noted) Cycles (all unless noted)
WBG Wet Bulb Globe Temperature    
S24 24-hour Snow Amount   00z, 02z, 03z, 04z, 05z, 06z, 08z, 09z, 10z, 11z, 12z, 14z, 15z, 16z, 17z, 18z, 20z, 21z, 22z, 23z

NBM Hourly (NBH)

Elements Description Region (all unless noted) Cycles (all unless noted)
WBG Wet Bulb Globe Temperature    
HID Haines Index    

NBM Short (NBS)

Elements Description Region (all unless noted) Cycles (all unless noted)
WBG Wet Bulb Globe Temperature    
HID Haines Index    

NBM Extra-Extended (NBX)

Elements Description Region (all unless noted) Cycles (all unless noted)
WBG Wet Bulb Globe Temperature    

NBM Probabilistic (NBP)

Elements Description Region (all unless noted) Cycles (all unless noted)
TXNMN QMD Mean Minimum/Maximum Temperature HI, GU, OC, PR 00z, 01z, 07z, 12z, 13z, 19z
TXNP (1,2,5,7,9) QMD (10, 25, 50, 75, 90)th Percentile Minimum/Maximum Temperature HI, GU, OC, PR 00z, 01z, 07z, 12z, 13z, 19z
TXNSD QMD Standard Deviation of Minimum/Maximum Temperature HI, GU, OC, PR 00z, 01z, 07z, 12z, 13z, 19z
W24P (1,2,5,7,9) QMD (10, 25, 50, 75, 90)th Percentile Maximum Wind Speed AK, HI, GU, OC, PR 00z, 01z, 07z, 12z, 13z, 19z
W24P (1,2,5,7,9) QMD (10, 25, 50, 75, 90)th Percentile Maximum Wind Gust AK, HI, GU, OC, PR 00z, 01z, 07z, 12z, 13z, 19z
Discontinuing "Empty" bulletins that were sent out at cycles 03z, 04z, 05z, 06z, 08z, 09z, 10z, 11z, 14z, 15z, 16z, 17z, 18z, 20z, 21z, 22z, 23z

 

NBM v5.0 Text Products Availability

The following table denotes the availabilty of text products by cycle. For SBN information, please see the documentation listed on the NBM Data Availability page.

Cycles Timing (UTC)
01 00:55 - 01:00
07 08:05 - 08:10
13 12:55 - 13:00
19 18:40 - 18:50
00, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23 HH:30 - HH:40