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PNSWSH
Service Change Notice 12-35
National Weather Service
Headquarters Washington DC
1040 AM EDT Wed Oct 24 2012
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: Change to Dissemination of Valdez Port,
Narrows and Arm
and Chiniak and Marmot Bays Coastal Waters Forecast
Products Effective January 9, 2013
Effective Wednesday, January 9,
2013, at 4 PM Alaska Standard Time (AKST), 8 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST), 0100
Thursday January 10, 2013, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather
Forecast Office (WFO) in Anchorage, AK (AFC) will
stop issuing individual Coastal
Waters Forecasts (CWF) for Valdez Port, Narrows and Arm, and Chiniak and Marmot Bays. Instead, these products will be included
in the Coastal Waters Forecast for the Northern Gulf of Alaska Coast Up to
100nm Out Including Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet (see Tables 1 and 2 below).
This change is required to upgrade the Anchorage WFO weather forecasting
computer system.
Table 1:
Current Product Names and Headers for the Coastal Waters Forecasts for Valdez
Port, Narrows and Arm and Chiniak and Marmot Bays,
and the Northern Gulf of Alaska Up to 100nm out Including Kodiak Island and
Cook Inlet.
Current Product Name Current WMO/AWIPS Header
-------------------- ------------------------
Coastal Waters Forecast FZAK58
PAVW/CWFVWS
for Valdez Port,
Narrows
and Arm
Coastal
Waters Forecast FZAK58 PADQ/CWFADQ
for Chiniak and Marmot Bay
Coastal Waters Forecast FZAK51 PAFC/CWFAER
for the Northern Gulf
of
Alaska Up to 100nm out
Including Kodiak Island
and Cook Inlet
Table 2: New Product Name and
Header for the Coastal Waters Forecasts for Valdez Port, Narrows and Arm and Chiniak and Marmot Bays which will be included in the
Coastal Waters Forecast for the Northern Gulf of Alaska Up to 100nm Out
Including Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet effective January 9, 2013.
New Product Name New WMO/AWIPS Header
-------------------- --------------------
Coastal Waters Forecast FZAK51 PAFC/CWFAER
for the Northern
Gulf of
Alaska Up to 100nm Out
Including Kodiak Island
and Cook Inlet
Customers currently receiving
the forecast products in Table 1
will need to change to the
WMO/AWIPS header shown in Table 2 to continue receiving this product.
For more information, please
contact:
Sam Albanese Louise Fode
Warning Coordination
Meteorologist Marine Program Manager
NWS Anchorage NWS
Alaska Region HQ
Anchorage, AK 99502 Anchorage, AK 99513
907-266-5117 907-271-3507
Sam.albanese@noaa.gov louise.fode@noaa.gov
National Service Change Notices
are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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