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PNSWSH
Service
Change Notice 12‑08
Nation
Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
340
PM EST Tue Feb 14 2012
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: Changes to the Fire Weather Forecast Service
Programs
at the NWS Weather
Forecast Offices in Des Moines, IA,
and Davenport, IA, Effective
March 15, 2012
Effective
Thursday, March 15, 2012, at 0001 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather
Forecast Offices (WFO) in Des Moines (DMX), IA and Davenport (DVN), IA, will change
their issuing suite of fire weather forecast products for their respective county
warning areas of responsibility. The following products will be issued by WFO DMX
and WFO DVN:
Table
1: WFO DMX and WFO DVN Fire Weather
Products Effective March 15, 2012
Product Name WMO Heading AWIPS ID
----------------------------- ----------- --------
Fire Weather Planning Forecast FNUS53 KDMX FWFDMX
Site-Specific (Spot) Forecast FNUS73 KDMX FWSDMX
Fire Weather Watch/Red Flag Warning WWUS83 KDMX RFWDMX
Fire Weather Planning Forecast FNUS53 KDVN FWFDVN
Site-Specific (Spot) Forecast FNUS73 KDVN FWSDVN
Fire Weather Watch/Red Flag Warning WWUS83 KDVN RFWDVN
DMX and DVN currently issue Site-Specific
(Spot) Forecasts (FWSDMX and FWSDVN). These forecasts will continue as part of WFO DMX’s and DVN’s fire
weather forecast product suite; however, both DMX and DVN will discontinue
their Grassland Fire Danger Product (RFDDMX and RFDDVN) on March 15, 2012. Information regarding grassland fire danger
will be included in the new Fire Weather Planning Forecasts (FWFDMX and FWFDVN).
The fire weather planning forecasts will provide each county in WFO DMX and WFO
DVN areas of responsibility with a fire weather forecast. A list of the
counties involved and the zone number of each county is online from the NWS
Management Information Retrieval System at:
Because
no changes to fire weather forecast zones are being made, current and future
fire weather zone shapefiles will have the correct zones for WFO DMX and
DVN. Fire weather forecast zone shapefiles
are available online at:
www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
Partners
and users of these products will need to add the above product headers/identifiers
to their communications systems to receive these NWS products:
If
you have any questions, please contact:
Brenda Brock
National Weather Service – Des Moines
Meteorologist-in-Charge
Johnston, IA 50131
or
Stephan Kuhl
National Weather Service – Quad Cities
Meteorologist-in-Charge
Davenport, IA 52806
National
Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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