NOUS41 KWBC 291523
PNSWSH
Service Change
Notice 13-9
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
1023 AM EST Tue
Jan 29 2013
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
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Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees
From: Eli Jacks
Chief, Fire and Public Weather
Services Branch
Subject: Changes in Fire Weather Forecast Zone Names
for
Utah Effective April 4, 2013
Effective
Thursday, April 4, 2013, at 600 AM Mountain Daylight
Time, 1200
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather
Forecast Offices
(WFO) in Salt Lake City, Utah (SLC), and
Grand Junction,
Colorado (GJT), will rename four fire weather
forecast zones.
Table 1: Changed WFO SLC, UT, Fire Weather Forecast
Zone Names
Zone Code Old Zone Name New Zone Name
--------- ------------- -------------
UTZ484 Western Book Cliffs Tavaputs
Plateau
UTZ488 Manti-La Sal National Forest Manti National
Forest
UTZ494 Canyonlands Henry Mountains
Table 2: Changed WFO GJT, CO, Fire Weather Forecast
Zone
Name in UT:
Zone Code Old Zone Name New Zone Name
--------- ------------- -------------
UTZ487 Eastern Book Cliffs Book Cliffs
These are fire
weather forecast zone name changes only.
No
change is being made to fire weather forecast zone
geographic
extents or zone numbers.
WFO SLC has fire
weather forecast responsibility for
approximately the western two-thirds of Utah, while WFO
SLC and
WFO GJT share
fire weather forecast responsibility for the
eastern one-third of Utah. Uintah Basin, Moab and
Richfield
Interagency Fire
Centers (IFC) requested these name changes.
These fire
weather product users felt that a different naming
convention would better serve their needs. These
changes have
also been coordinated with the Eastern Great
Basin Coordination
Center, Utah
Interagency Fire Centers, and other fire weather
partners and users in Utah.
An updated fire
weather zone map shapefile containing the new
zones is online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
Partners and
users of WFO SLC and WFO GJT fire weather products
will need to update their system(s) to continue
receiving correct
fire weather forecasts/products.
For more
information, please contact:
Larry Dunn Ben Moyer
Meteorologist-in-Charge Meteorologist-in-Charge
larry.dunn@noaa.gov benjamin.moyer@noaa.gov
Salt Lake City,
UT 84116 NWS Grand Junction,
CO
801-524-4378 970-243-7007 x 642
National Service
Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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