20060216: corrected-fire wx-ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC (fwd)

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• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:22:04 -0700

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SERVICE CHANGE NOTICE 06-09...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC
715 AM EST THU FEB 16 2006

TO:       FAMILY OF SERVICES /FOS/ SUBSCRIBERS...NOAA WEATHER
         WIRE SERVICE /NWWS/ SUBSCRIBERS...EMRGENCY MANAGERS
         WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK /EMWIN/ SUBSCRIBERS...
         NOAAPORT SUBSCRIBERS...OTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
         /NWS/ CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS...USERS OF THE FIRE
         WEATHER FORECASTS...AND NWS EMPLOYEES

FROM:     ELI JACKS
         CHIEF...FIRE AND PUBLIC WEATHER SERVICES BRANCH

SUBJECT:  CORRECTED: ADDITION OF THREE NEW FIRE WEATHER ZONES
         ISSUED BY WFO SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA: EFFECTIVE
         FEBRUARY 28 2006

CORRECTED TO RESTRUCTURE NEBRASKA FIRE WEATHER COUNTIES INTO A
SEPARATE ZONE.  AS A RESULT THE SUBJECT LINE AND PARAGRAPHS ONE
THROUGH THREE OF THE ORIGINAL SCN06-09 HAVE BEEN MODIFIED...
INCLUDING DELETION OF THE FIRST TABLE.

EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 28 AT 0001 COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME /UTC/...
WFO SIOUX FALLS WILL ADD THREE NEW FIRE WEATHER ZONES TO ITS AREA
OF RESPONSIBILITY: ONE IN NEBRASKA AND TWO IN IOWA.  THE THREE
NEW ZONE NUMBERS...THEIR DESCRIPTIONS...AND ASSOCIATED COUNTIES
ARE AS FOLLOWS:

ZONEZONE NAMECOUNTIES
NUMBER

NEZ249EXTREME NORTHEAST NEBRASKADIXON AND DAKOTA

IAZ300NORTHERN LOESS HILLSWOODBURY...IDA...
 AND FLOYD RIVER BASINPLYMOUTH...SOUTHERN
      SIOUX...WESTERN
     CHEROKEE AND EXTREME
     SOUTHWEST OBRIEN

IAZ301IOWA GREAT LAKES/ROCKDICKENSON...CLAY...
     AND LITTLE SIOUX BASINSOSCEOLA...LYON...BUENA
 VISTA...EASTERN
     CHEROKEE...NORTHERN AND
     EASTERN OBRIEN...AND
     NORTHERN SIOUX


NWS CUSTOMERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO MAKE THE NECESSARY CHANGES TO
THEIR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS TO ACCOMMODATE THESE ZONE ADDITIONS.

ALTHOUGH THIS NOTIFICATION IS LESS THAN THE REQUIRED 120 DAYS AS
SPECIFIED BY NWSI 10-1805...THESE NEW ZONE ADDITIONS WERE
REQUESTED BY...AND HAVE BEEN CLOSELY COORDINATED WITH...LOCAL
FIRE WEATHER PARTNERS AND CUSTOMERS TO BE READY TO GO WITH THIS
CHANGE ON FEBRUARY 28.

A SHAPEFILE OF THE NEW FIRE WEATHER ZONES IS AVAILABLE FOR
DOWNLOAD FROM THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE /USE LOWER CASE LETTERS/:

WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/GEODATA/CATALOG/WSOM/HTML/FIREZONE.HTM


IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE SERVICE CHANGE AND/OR
PRODUCT ADDITIONS... CONTACT

    D. GREG HARMON
    METEOROLOGIST-IN-CHARGE
    NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE
    26 WEATHER LANE
    SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA 57104-0198
    PHONE 605-330-4247
    EMAIL GREG.HARMON@xxxxxxxx

THIS AND OTHER NWS SERVICE CHANGE NOTICES ARE AVAILABLE ON THE
INTERNET AT /USE LOWER CASE LETTERS/

    HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/OM/NOTIF.HTM

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