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Service Change Notice 12-16
National Weather Service Headquarters
Washington DC
250
PM EDT Fri Mar 30 2012
To:
Subscribers:
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Other
NWS Partners and NWS Employees
From: Eli Jacks
Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch
Subject: Changes in Fire Weather
Forecast Zones for Utah
Effective April 30, 2012
Effective Monday April 30, 2012, at 600 AM Mountain Daylight
Time, 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather Forecast Offices in
Salt Lake City, Utah, and Grand Junction, Colorado, will reconfigure the fire
weather forecast zones for Utah to align with the boundaries of the National
Fire Danger Rating Areas. Upon implementation of this change, all fire weather
forecasts and related products for Utah will use the zone number and name shown
below. Utah fire weather forecast zones
UTZ420 through UTZ449 will no longer be used.
Table 1: WFO Salt
Lake City Fire Weather Forecast Zones in UT
Zone Code New Zone Name
--------- -------------
UTZ478 Salt Lake
Desert
This zone includes the Great Salt Lake Desert and the
Wasatch Front from Nephi to the Idaho Border.
UTZ479 Wasatch
Mountains
This zone includes the Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch Mountain
Valleys, the Cache Valley and the Bear River Valley along the Wyoming border.
UTZ480 Uinta
Mountains
This zone includes the north slopes of the Uinta Mountains in
Summit County.
UTZ481 Western Ashley
National Forest
This zone includes the south slopes of the Uinta Mountains in
Duchesne County.
UTZ482 Western
Uintah Basin
This zone includes the western portion of the Uintah Basin in
Duchesne County.
UTZ483 Southern
Ashley National Forest
This zone includes Ashley National Forest in the extreme
eastern portion of Wasatch County and southwest Duchesne County.
UTZ484 Western
Book Cliffs
This zone includes the West Tavaputs Plateau and the western portion of the Book Cliffs.
UTZ488 Manti-La
Sal National Forest
This zone includes the northern portion of the central
mountains, otherwise known as the Wasatch Plateau. This area is mostly
contained within Sanpete County.
UTZ489 San
Rafael Swell
This zone includes Castle Country and the San Rafael Swell.
UTZ492 Central
Utah West Desert
This zone includes much of southeast Utah from Lake Powell
eastward to the Colorado border, and north to about the latitude of Moab.
UTZ493 Central
Utah Mountains
This mountainous zone lies mainly within the counties of
Sevier and Piute, as well as the western portion of Wayne County.
UTZ494 Canyonlands
This zone includes the Henry Mountains, Canyonlands,
and the eastern portion of Capitol Reef National Park.
UTZ495 Color
Country West Desert
This zone includes most of the lower elevation areas of Iron
and Beaver Counties.
UTZ496 Color
Country Mountains
This zone includes the higher terrain of southwest Utah from
the Pine Valley Mountains, eastward to Boulder Mountain, and the western
portion of Capitol Reef National Park.
UTZ497 Mojave
Desert
This zone includes the northern portion of the Arizona
Strip, within Washington County, Utah.
UTZ498 Grand
Staircase
This zone includes the Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument in Kane and southern Garfield Counties, as well as the Lake Powell
region.
Table 2: WFO GJT Fire
Weather Forecast Zones in UT:
Zone Code New Zone Name
--------- -------------
UTZ485 Eastern Ashley National Forest
This zone includes the Uinta Mountains of Daggett and Uintah
Counties.
UTZ486 Eastern Uintah
Basin
This zone includes the eastern Uintah Basin in Uintah
County.
UTZ487 Eastern Book Cliffs
This zone includes the East Tavaputs Plateau and the eastern portion of the Book Cliffs.
UTZ490 Colorado River
Basin
This zone contains the low elevations surrounding the
Colorado River between the Colorado-Utah border and Moab.
UTZ491 Southeast
Utah
This zone includes much of southeast Utah from Lake Powell
eastward to the Colorado border, and north to about the latitude of Moab.
These changes have been requested by and coordinated with
the Eastern Great Basin Coordination Center, Utah Interagency Fire Centers and
other fire weather partners and users in Utah.
Additional information regarding these fire weather forecast
zones changes is online at:
www.nws.noaa.gov/os/fire/ut-fzones.doc
Partners and users of WFO SLC fire weather products will
need to update their system(s) to continue receiving correct fire weather
forecasts/products.
An updated fire weather zone map shapefile containing the
new zones is online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
If you have any questions or comments please contact:
Larry Dunn Doug Crowley
Meteorologist-in-Charge Meteorologist-in-Charge
larry.dunn@noaa.gov doug.crowley@noaa.gov
NWS Weather
Forecast Office
Or 2844
Aviators Way
Grand
Junction, CO 81506
Kevin Barjenbruch 970-243-7007 x 642
Warning Coordination
Meteorologist
NWS Weather Forecast Office
2242 West North Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
801-524-4378
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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