[nws-changes] 20130129: Fire Wx - Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:38:27 -0700

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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
          -Emergency Managers Weather 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@xxxxxxxx                  benjamin.moyer@xxxxxxxx
Salt Lake City, UT 84116             NWS Grand Junction, CO
801-524-4378                         970-243-7007 x 642

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

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