Topic:  Critical Weather Day has been declared.

Date/Time Issued:  April 20, 2020  1659Z

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  April 19, 2020 1200Z  J/D 110

Date/Time of Expected End:  April 20, 2020 1200Z   J/D 111

Length of Outage:  24 Hours

Type:  Regional

Who:  NCEP, NWSTG, NCF and Southern Region.

Reason:  SPC Day-1 moderate risk outlook for severe thunderstorms from part of the lower Mississippi Valley across much of the southeast US.

Users can get CWD status on the NCEP WEB page:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/cwd/

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 or Senior Duty Meteorologist at Sdm@noaa.gov at 301-683-1500