[nws-changes] 20110819: fire wx coverage-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20110819: fire wx coverage-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:00:57 -0000

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Service Change Notice 11-29
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
810 AM EDT Fri Aug 19 2011

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: Implementation of Improved Fire and Public Weather
         Coverage for Southwest Louisiana Effective
         December 15, 2011

Effective Thursday, December 15, 2011, at 1200 pm Central
Standard Time, 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the
NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Lake Charles (LCH),
LA, will reconfigure its fire and public weather forecast zone
for Cameron (LAZ051) Parish in southwest Louisiana.

This reconfiguration will provide better forecast services by
splitting this parish into separate western and eastern fire and
public weather forecast zones due to the large meteorological,
climatological, and geographical differences from west to east.

The fire and public weather forecast zone for Cameron (LAZ051)
Parish will be split to form West Cameron (LAZ073) and East
Cameron (LAZ074). This split will account for tropical cyclone,
fire weather, and winter weather impacts that only affect one
portion of this parish and not the other.

These changes require partners and users to take appropriate
action to receive the new zone products using the Universal
Generic Code (UGC) zone code format (Z) listed in Table 1.

TABLE 1.  New Fire and Public Zone Configuration Identifiers

NEW FIRE/PUBLIC    UGC (Z)    EXISTING FIRE/PUBLIC     UGC (Z)
  ZONE NAME                      ZONE NAME
---------------    ------     --------------------     ------
WEST CAMERON       LAZ073     CAMERON                  LAZ051
EAST CAMERON       LAZ074     CAMERON                  LAZ051

More detail regarding this change, including greater detail
regarding why these fire and public zone changes are being made,
graphical depictions of the current and new fire and public
zones and a table of affected WFO LCH products is available
online at:

  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/?n=cameron_zonereconfig

Updated fire and public weather forecast zone shapefiles are
online at:

  www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
and
  www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm

For more information, please contact:

Andy Patrick                Melinda Bailey
Meteorologist-in-Charge     Public/Marine Meteorologist
NWS Lake Charles            NWS Southern Region Headquarters
Lake Charles LA 70607       Fort Worth TX 76102
337-477-5285                817-978-1100 X107
andy.patrick@xxxxxxxx       melinda.bailey@xxxxxxxx

National Service Change Notices are online at:

  http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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