MarySue designed and developed software for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS).   AWIPS workstations are located in the National Weather Service Forecast Offices (WFOs), where they are used by the forecasters to produce weather forecasts, watches and warnings. AWIPS allows the forecasters to display and analyze different types of data on the same display, making it easier for them to integrate the information needed to produce accurate forecasts. MarySue developed software that provides meteorological data from a number of sources to the workstations in real time, which contributes to accurate and timely weather forecasts. Real-time data is especially important for severe weather warnings, because the public needs to be informed as quickly as possible. Once a forecast or warning has been issued, MarySue's software sends it to the NWS Network Control Facility for distribution to the public. The software is also responsible for routing non-weather warnings issued by emergency management agencies (for things such as chemical spills, volcano eruptions, and earthquakes) through the AWIPS platforms at the WFOs to NOAA's national warning distribution systems: NOAA Weather Radio and the NOAA Weather Wire Service.