WPC

E397264

U.S. National Weather Service center meteorological center operational forecasting center

WPC is a U.S. National Weather Service center responsible for producing national forecasts of heavy rain, snow, and other significant weather events.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
WPC canonical	2

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	U.S. National Weather Service center ⓘ meteorological center ⓘ operational forecasting center ⓘ
abbreviation	WPC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
fieldOfWork	forecast verification ⓘ hydrometeorology ⓘ meteorology ⓘ numerical weather prediction ⓘ weather analysis ⓘ
hasWebsite	https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov ⓘ
headquartersLocation	College Park, Maryland ⓘ
inception	1995 ⓘ
industry	weather forecasting ⓘ
jurisdiction	United States government ⓘ surface form: federal government of the United States
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Maryland ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Eastern Time Zone ⓘ
mainFunction	issuing discussions on synoptic-scale weather systems ⓘ issuing excessive rainfall outlooks ⓘ issuing winter weather outlooks ⓘ producing medium-range weather forecasts ⓘ producing national forecasts of heavy rain ⓘ producing national forecasts of heavy snow ⓘ producing national forecasts of significant weather events ⓘ producing quantitative precipitation forecasts ⓘ producing short-range weather forecasts ⓘ producing surface analysis charts ⓘ
operator	National Weather Service ⓘ
parentOrganization	National Centers for Environmental Prediction ⓘ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ⓘ National Weather Service ⓘ U.S. Department of Commerce ⓘ surface form: United States Department of Commerce
partOf	National Centers for Environmental Prediction ⓘ United States government ⓘ surface form: United States federal government
previousName	National Centers for Environmental Prediction ⓘ surface form: Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
produces	guidance products for local forecast offices ⓘ international forecast guidance products ⓘ public weather forecasts ⓘ
replaced	National Centers for Environmental Prediction ⓘ surface form: Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
serviceArea	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States contiguous United States ⓘ
successor	Weather Prediction Center ⓘ
usesMethod	ensemble forecasting ⓘ numerical weather prediction models ⓘ radar data analysis ⓘ satellite data analysis ⓘ surface and upper-air observations ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: WPC
Description of subject: WPC is a U.S. National Weather Service center responsible for producing national forecasts of heavy rain, snow, and other significant weather events.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Weather Prediction Center → abbreviation → WPC ⓘ

WPC → abbreviation → WPC self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Weather Prediction Center