NOUS41 KWBC 011115
PNSWSH
Service Change Notice 10-41
National Weather Service Headquarters
715 AM EDT Fri Oct 1 2010
TO: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees From: Therese Z. Pierce
Chief, Marine and Coastal Services Branch
Subject: Change to official name of issuing office in
products from the
effective January 10, 2011
The NWS Tropical Prediction Center (TPC) has officially changed
its name to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Effective On
January 10, 2011, at 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) this
will be reflected in the Issuing Office Line of the Mass News
Disseminator Header Block.
The following change to the Issuing Office Line for text
products will occur:
Current Issuing Office Line:
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
Issuing Office Line effective January 10, 2011 at 1200 UTC:
Products associated with a specific tropical cyclone will
continue to be appended at the end of the Issuing Office Line
with BBCCYYYY
Where BB is AL (
CC is the cyclone number (01, 02, 03, 49)
YYYY is the 4 digit year the tropical cyclone formed
A list of text products affected by the name change is
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/nhc_name_change.php?large
References to TPC in any graphical products issued by the
There will be no changes to AWIPS identifiers and WMO
product headings.
If you have questions about this change, please contact:
John Kuhn
National Weather Service
Marine and Coastal Services Branch
301-713-1677 Ext. 121
John.F.Kuhn@noaa.gov
National Service Change Notices are available online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm
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