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PNSWSH
Service Change
Notice 12-34, Amended
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
357 PM EST Wed
Jan 23 2013
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Mark Tew
Chief, Marine and Coastal Weather
Services Branch
Subject: Amended:
New WMO Header and MND Header Block for
Yakutat Bay Coastal Waters Forecast
Product
Effective Date Delayed Until January
29, 2013
Due to unforeseen
circumstances, this change, originally planned
for January 09,
2013, is delayed until Jan 29, 2013.
Effective
Tuesday, January 29, 2013, at 2 pm Alaska
Standard Time
(AKST), 6 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST), or 11 pm,
Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather Forecast Office
(WFO) in Juneau,
AK (AJK) will change the WMO header for the
Coastal Waters
Forecast (CWF) for Yakutat Bay (see Tables 1 and 2
below). This
change is required to upgrade the Juneau WFO weather
forecasting
computer system.
In addition, on
January 29 at the same time, the Mass News
Disseminator
(MND) header block will change to reflect WFO Juneau
as the issuing
office for this product (see Tables 3 and 4
below).
Table 1: Current
WMO/AWIPS header for Coastal Waters Forecast for
Yakutat Bay
Product Name WMO/AWIPS Header
------------ ----------------
Coastal Waters
Forecast FZAK57
PAYA/CWFYAK
for Yakutat Bay
Table 2: New
WMO/AWIPS header for Coastal Waters Forecast for
Yakutat Bay
effective January 29, 2013
Product Name WMO/AWIPS Header
------------ ----------------
Coastal Waters
Forecast FZAK53
PAJK/CWFYAK
for Yakutat Bay
Customers
currently receiving the forecast product for
Yakutat Bay will
need to change to the WMO/AWIPS header shown in
Table 2 to
continue receiving this product.
Table 3: Current MND header block for CWF for Yakutat
Bay
Marine Forecast
for Yakutat Bay
National Weather
Service Yakutat AK
Date/Time Group
Table 4: New MND header block for CWF for Yakutat Bay
effective
January 29,
2013
Marine Forecast
for Yakutat Bay
National Weather
Service Juneau AK
Date/Time Group
For more
information, please contact:
Tom Ainsworth Louise Fode
Meteorologist in
Charge Marine Program
Manager
NWS Juneau NWS Alaska Region HQ
Juneau, AK
99801 Anchorage, AK
99513
907-790-6805 907-271-3507
tom.ainsworth@noaa.gov louise.fode@noaa.gov
National Service
Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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