NOUS41 KWBC
211430 CAA
PNSWSH
Service Change
Notice 12-34, Corrected
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
930 AM EST Thu
Jan 24 2013
To: Subscribers:
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Information Network
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Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Mark Tew
Chief, Marine and Coastal Weather
Services Branch
Subject:
Corrected: New WMO Header and MND Header
Block for Yakutat Bay Coastal Waters
Forecast
Product Effective Date Delayed until
January 29,
2013
Corrected to
change implementation time from 11 pm
Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC) to 2300 Coordinated
Universal Time
(UTC).
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
2300 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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