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PNSWSH
Service Change Notice 11-29
National Weather Service Headquarters
Washington DC
810
AM EDT Fri Aug 19 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
Coverage for Southwest Louisiana Effective
December 15, 2011
Effective Thursday, December 15, 2011, at 1200
pm Central
Standard Time, 1800 Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC), the
NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Lake Charles
(LCH),
LA, will reconfigure its fire and public weather
forecast zone for Cameron (LAZ051) Parish in southwest Louisiana.
This reconfiguration will provide better
forecast services by splitting this parish into separate western and eastern fire
and public weather forecast zones due to the
large meteorological, climatological, and geographical differences from west to east.
The fire and public weather forecast zone
for Cameron (LAZ051)
Parish will be split to form West Cameron (LAZ073)
and East Cameron (LAZ074). This split will account for tropical cyclone, fire
weather, and winter weather impacts that only affect one portion of this parish
and not the other.
These changes require partners and users to take appropriate
action to receive the new zone products using the Universal Generic Code (UGC)
zone code format (Z) listed 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
--------------- ------ -------------------- ------
WEST CAMERON LAZ073 CAMERON LAZ051
EAST
CAMERON LAZ074 CAMERON LAZ051
More detail regarding this change, including
greater 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 affected WFO LCH products is available online at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/?n=cameron_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
NWS Lake Charles NWS Southern Region Headquarters
Lake Charles LA 70607 Fort Worth TX 76102
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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