NOUS41 KWBC 281559
PNSWSH
Public
Information Notice
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
1100 AM EST Thu
Feb 28 2013
TO: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS employees
FROM: James E. Hoke
Director, Hydrometeorological
Prediction Center
SUBJECT: Change
of the Name of the Hydrometeorological
Prediction Center to Weather
Prediction Center
Effective March 5, 2013
Effective March
5, 2013, the NCEP Hydrometeorological Prediction
Center (HPC) will
be known as the Weather Prediction Center
(WPC). There will be no changes to the HPC product
suite due to
this change and all AWIPS and WMO headers will
remain the same.
The URL of the
Website will change from
to
All current links
to HPC will lead to the same pages for at
least 6 months.
The new name
captures the breadth of products and services
produced by the center. There has been broad support
for the
name change by center employees, users of the
center’s products
and services, the employees’ organization, NOAA
leadership, the
academic community, the private sector, and other
stakeholders.
For more
information, please contact:
James.Hoke@noaa.gov or 301-683-1331.
National Public
Information Notices are available online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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