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PNSWSH
Service Change Notice 12-15
National Weather Service Headquarters
Washington DC
250
PM EDT Fri Mar 30 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 in Four Fire Weather
Forecast Zone Names for
Western Washington Effective April 30 2012.
Effective Monday April
30, 2012, at 500 AM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), 1200 Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC), the NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Seattle, Washington (SEW),
will rename four fire weather forecast zones for western Washington. These changes will reduce confusion from the
ambiguous names currently in place and provide zone naming consistency between
WFO Seattle fire weather and public weather zones.
Upon implementation
of this change, fire weather forecasts and related products for Western
Washington will utilize the zone number and name shown below:
Zone
Code Current Zone Name New Zone Name
--------- ----------------- -------------
WAZ656 West Slopes of the Northeast Puget Sound
North Cascades Lowlands generally below
1500 Feet
WAZ657 West Slopes of the Southeast Puget Sound
Central Cascades Lowlands generally below
1500 Feet
WAZ658 North Cascades West Slopes of the North
Cascades generally
above
1500 Feet
WAZ659 Central Cascades West Slopes of the Central
Cascades generally
above
1500 Feet
These changes have
been coordinated with the Bureau of Land Management, Department of Natural
Resources, National Park Service, the National Forest Service and other fire
weather partners and users in western Washington.
An updated fire
weather zone map shapefile containing the new zones names is online
at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
If you have any questions
or comments please contact:
Brad Colman, Meteorologist-in-Charge
or
Andy Haner, Fire Weather Program Leader
National Weather Service
Seattle Weather Forecast
Office
Seattle, WA 98115
206-526-6087
National Service
Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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