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Change Notice 11-16
National
Weather Service Headquarters
224 PM EDT Mon Mar 28 2011
TO: Subscribers:
- Family of Services
- NOAA Weather Wire Service
- Emergency Managers Weather Information
Network
- NOAAPORT
- Other NWS partners and NWS employees
FROM: Eli
Jacks
Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch
SUBJECT: Implementation of Improved Fire and
Public Weather
Forecasts for Southeast Texas Effective August
4, 2011
Effective
Thursday, August 4, 2011, at 100 pm Central Daylight
Time
(CDT), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS
Weather
Forecast Office (WFO) in Lake Charles, Louisiana (LCH)
will reconfigure its current fire and
public weather forecast
zones for Jasper (TXZ181) County and
Newton (TXZ182) County in
southeast
This
reconfiguration will provide better fire and public
forecast services by splitting each of
these counties into
separate northern and southern forecast
zones. This change is
being made because of the large meteorological, climatological
and geographical
differences from north to south.
The
fire and public weather forecast zones for Jasper (TXZ181)
County
will be split to form Northern Jasper (TXZ259) and
Southern Jasper (TXZ261). Newton (TXZ182)
County will be
split to form Northern Newton (TXZ260)
and
(TXZ262).
This split will account for tropical cyclone, fire
weather and winter weather impacts that only
affect one portion
of these counties and not the other.
These fire and public zone changes require users to take
appropriate action to receive the new zone products using the
Universal Generic Code (UGC) zone code format(Z)
in Table 1.
TABLE 1: New Fire and Public Zone Configuration Identifiers
NEW FIRE/PUBLIC UGC (Z) EXISTING FIRE/PUBLIC UGC (Z)
ZONE NAME ZONE NAME
--------------- ------ -------------------- ------
NORTHERN JASPER TXZ259 JASPER TXZ181
SOUTHERN JASPER TXZ261 JASPER TXZ181
NORTHERN NEWTON TXZ260 NEWTON TXZ182
SOUTHERN
NEWTON TXZ262 NEWTON TXZ182
Detail
regarding why these fire and public zone changes are being made, graphical
depictions of the current and new fire and public zones, and a table of WFO LCH
affected products are online at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/?n=jaspernewton_zonereconfig
Updated
fire and public weather forecast zone shapefiles are
online at:
www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
and
www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
For
more information, please contact:
Andy
Patrick Melinda Bailey
Meteorologist-in-Charge Public/Marine Meteorologist
WFO
Lake Charles NWS Southern
Region Headquarters
337-477-5285 817-978-1100 X107
andy.patrick@noaa.gov melinda.bailey@noaa.gov
National
Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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