tional Weather Services massive modernization and office restructuring that will officially make the El Paso National Weather Service office a WFO (Weather Forecast Office) on April 4, 2000 when this new computer system is commissioned.
      Timely, accurate, weather, water and climate information impacts the economy and the well-being of every citizen and business in this nation.  This new massive computer, the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS), provides significant improvements in weather and flood related services. The system also gives NWS forecasters access to other tools developed and installed under the modernization program such as satellite imagery, Doppler radar data, automated weather observations and computer-generated numerical forecasts, all at one workstation.
      For an investment that costs each American about $4 per year, the NWS issues more than 734,000 weather forecasts and 850,000 river and flood forecasts, in addition to between 45,000 and 50,000 potentially life-saving severe weather warnings annually.

      A high-tech, interactive weather computer and communications system has been installed in 152 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sites across the country, completing a decade-long effort to revamp weather services and significantly improve weather forecasting. This installation was the final piece of technology in the Na

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