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Public Information Notice 
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1100 AM EST Thu Feb 28 2013

TO:      Subscribers:
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         Other NWS Partners and NWS employees

FROM:    James E. Hoke
         Director, Hydrometeorological Prediction Center

SUBJECT: Change of the Name of the Hydrometeorological 
         Prediction Center to Weather Prediction Center  
         Effective March 5, 2013

Effective March 5, 2013, the NCEP Hydrometeorological Prediction 
Center (HPC) will be known as the Weather Prediction Center 
(WPC). There will be no changes to the HPC product suite due to 
this change and all AWIPS and WMO headers will remain the same. 

The URL of the Website will change from

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
 
to 

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

All current links to HPC will lead to the same pages for at 
least 6 months. 

The new name captures the breadth of products and services 
produced by the center. There has been broad support for the 
name change by center employees, users of the center’s products 
and services, the employees’ organization, NOAA leadership, the 
academic community, the private sector, and other stakeholders.

For more information, please contact:

    James.Hoke@noaa.gov or 301-683-1331.

National Public Information Notices are available online at:

    http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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