county warning areas changes in Virginia

• To: msd.nws(rec)
• Subject: county warning areas changes in Virginia
• From: C.ALEX
• Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 16:15:07 -0700

Posted: Fri, Mar 26, 1993   3:52 PM EST              Msg: EGJD-5610-3491
CC:     l.miller.ucar(rec)
Subj:   county warning areas changes in Virginia      
I sent the following message out this afternoon.  [t has also been direct 
mailed from OM11 to a mailing list they use]:
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WSHPNSWSH
ADMN81 KWBC 261914
 
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC
215 PM EST FRI MAR 26 1993
 
TO:    NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (NWS) EMPLOYEES, FAMILY OF
       SERVICES (FOS) SUBSCRIBERS, NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE
       (NWWS) SUBSCRIBERS, OTHER NWS PRODUCT USERS
 
FROM:  DONALD R. WERNLY, CHIEF, WARNING AND FORECAST BRANCH,
       OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY, NWS HEADQUARTERS
 
Effective June 1, 1993 at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the
National Weather Service (NWS) will transfer short-fuse warning
responsibility for three counties in western Virginia (see Table
1 below) TO the Roanoke (ROA), Virginia Weather Service Office
(WSO) FROM the Richmond (RIC), Virginia WSO.  For these counties,
WSO ROA will issue short-fuse warning products (see Table 2
below) and related products that give follow-up information on
the warnings (see Table 3 below).  For holders of NWS Operations
Manual Chapter C-47, County Warning Areas, this transfer is the
4th update of 1993.
 
Because of this county warning transfer, subscribers to the NOAA
Weather Wire Service (NWWS) and the Family of Services (FOS) must
take appropriate action to receive the short-fuse warnings and
related products for these three counties using the ROA
identifier (Tables 2 and 3) instead of the RIC identifier.  The
Universal Generic Codes (UGC) for the counties, however, will
remain unchanged (as shown in Table 1).
 
TABLE 1.
 
    County      UGC county     UGC zone    From     To    
                  code           code
 
    Bath        VAC017-        VAZ013-     RIC      ROA
    Alleghany   VAC005-        VAZ013-     RIC      ROA
    Rockbridge  VAC163-        VAZ014-     RIC      ROA
 
TABLE 2.
 
    The following are short-fuse warning products for the three
    counties transferred to WSO ROA.  UGC county codes are used
    in these products.
 
    Warning product for             AFOS/NWWS ID    FOS ID
 
    tornadoes                       WBCTORROA       WFUS1 KROA
    severe thunderstorms            WBCSVRROA       WUUS1 KROA
    flash floods                    WBCFFWROA       WRUS1 KROA
 
TABLE 3.
 
    The following are key related products for the three
    counties transferred to WSO ROA.  UGC zone codes are used
    in these products.
 
    Related products                AFOS/NWWS ID    FOS ID
 
    special weather statement       WBCSPSROA       WWUS35 KROA
    severe weather statement        WBCSVSROA       WWUS34 KROA
    civil emergency message         WBCCEMROA       to be added
    public info. statement          WBCPNSROA       ABUS34 KROA
  * winter weather warnings         WBCWSWROA       WWUS46 KROA
  * non-precipitation warnings      WBCNPWROA       WWUS45 KROA
    short-term forecast             WBCNOWROA       FXUS21 KROA
    flash flood statement           WBCFFSROA       RWUS32 KROA
    local storm report              WBCLSRROA       WWUS30 KROA
 
  * used for emergency backup to the Weather Service Forecast
    Office (WSFO) in Washington (WBC), DC.
      
Users should continue to receive products from WSFO WBC covering
longer-fuse events for these counties, including those from the
first six categories listed in Table 3.
 
If you have further questions, you may contact the following:
      
    Harry McIntosh, Meteorologist-in-Charge (MIC)
    NOAA/National Weather Service
    Regional Airport, Old Term Building
    1635 Aviation Drive
    Roanoke, VA 24012
    Telephone (703)-982-4622
 
    James Belville (MIC) or
      William Comeaux (Deputy MIC) or Barbara McNaught
    NOAA/National Weather Service Forecast Office
    Rt. 1 Box 107
    Sterling, VA 22170
    Telephone (703)-260-0107   
 
SENT - W/OM23