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Service Change Notice 13-18
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
350 PM EST Mon Mar 4 2013
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners and NWS Employees
From: Mark A. Tew
Chief, Marine and Coastal Weather Services Branch
Eli Jacks
Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch
Subject: Sheltered Waters Along Part of North Carolina Coastline
Will Transfer from Marine Zones to Fire and Public
Zones Effective April 2, 2013
Effective Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at 2 PM Eastern Daylight Time
(EDT), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather
Forecast Office (WFO) in Wilmington, NC, will transfer its
sheltered waters (i.e., the intracoastal waters, tidal creeks,
etc.) from marine zones (AMZ250 and AMZ252) to fire zones
(NCZ106, NCZ108, and NCZ110) and public zones (NCZ106, NCZ108,
and NCZ110). In addition the sheltered portion of marine zone
AMZ158 that extends south of the Onslow/Pender county line into
WFO Wilmingtons area of responsibility will transfer to fire
zone NCZ106 and public zone NCZ106. This marine area was
incorrectly included in marine zone AMZ158, Coastal Waters from
Cape Lookout to Surf City, NC, out 20 NM.
All these waters are between the Onslow/Pender county line (near
Surf City, NC) and the Little River Inlet, SC (near the NC/SC
border) and are sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean. Their weather
is more like the adjacent fire and public zones than the marine
zones they are currently in. The modified zones are listed in
Tables 1 and 2 below. WFO Wilmington will continue to issue
forecasts and warnings for the modified zones in Tables 1 and 2
via the products in Table 3.
Table 1. Marine zones being modified. The zone names and
Universal Geographic Codes (UGCs) will not change.
Marine Zone Name UGC Comment
------------------------- --- -------
Coastal Waters from Cape AMZ158 Removes waters south of
Lookout to Surf City, NC Onslow/Pender county line
out 20 NM sheltered from the
Atlantic Ocean
Coastal Waters from Surf City AMZ250 Removes waters sheltered
to Cape Fear NC out 20 NM from the Atlantic Ocean
Coastal Waters from Cape Fear AMZ252 Removes waters sheltered
NC to Little River Inlet SC from the Atlantic Ocean
out 20 NM
Table 2. Fire and Public zones being modified. The zone names
and UGCs will not change.
Fire Zone Name UGC Comment
----------------------- --- -------
Coastal Pender NCZ106 Now includes waters
sheltered from the
Atlantic Ocean
Coastal New Hanover NCZ108 Now includes waters
sheltered from the
Atlantic Ocean
Coastal Brunswick NCZ110 Now includes waters
sheltered from the
Atlantic Ocean
Public Zone Name UGC Comment
------------------------- --- ------
Coastal Pender NCZ106 Now includes waters
sheltered from the
Atlantic Ocean
Coastal New Hanover NCZ108 Now includes waters
sheltered from the
Atlantic Ocean
Coastal Brunswick NCZ110 Now includes waters
sheltered from the
Atlantic Ocean
This change also affects WFO Wilmingtons County and County
Warning Area (CWA) shapefiles.
Partners and users providing NWS forecasts must download updated
map shapefiles to correctly provide forecasts for the sheltered
waters along part of North Carolinas coastline between
Onslow/Pender county line (near Surf City, NC), and the Little
River Inlet, SC, available online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/marinezones.htm
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/cwa.htm
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/county/html/county.htm
A graphical depiction of this change is also available at:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ilm/ILM_Sheltered.pdf
Table 3. NWS text products affected by the WFO ILM transfer of
its sheltered waters from marine zones (AMZ158, AMZ250 and
AMZ252) to fire (NCZ106, NCZ108, and NCZ110) and public (NCZ106,
NCZ108, and NCZ110) zones.
Product Name WMO Heading AWIPS ID
------------ ----------- --------
Coastal Waters Forecast FZUS52 KILM CWFILM
Marine Weather Message WHUS72 KILM MWWILM
Special Marine Warning WHUS52 KILM SMWILM
Marine Weather Statement FZUS72 KILM MWSILM
Hurricane Local Statement WTUS82 KILM HLSILM
Hazardous Weather Outlook FLUS42 KILM HWOILM
Watch County Notification WWUS62 KILM WCNILM
Coastal Hazard Message WHUS42 KILM CFWILM
Severe Thunderstorm Warning WUUS52 KILM SVRILM
Tornado Warning WFUS52 KILM TORILM
Severe Weather Statement WWUS52 KILM SVSILM
Special Weather Statement WWUS82 KILM SPSILM
Zone Forecast FPUS52 KILM ZFPILM
Short Term Forecast FPUS72 KILM NOWILM
Tsunami Message WEXX20 PAAQ TSUAT1
Fire Weather Forecast FNUS52 KILM FWFILM
Red Flag Watch/Warning WWUS82 KILM RFWILM
Watch Outline Update WOUS64 KWNS WOUn (n=1-9)
Surf Zone Forecast FZUS52 KILM SRFILM
Users do not have to take any action to continue receiving these
text products.
If you have any questions or comments about this transfer of
sheltered waters along part of the North Carolina coastline from
marine zones to fire and public weather zones please contact:
Steven Pfaff
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
WFO Wilmington, NC
Wilmington, NC 28405-6858
910-762-0524 x223
Steven.Pfaff@xxxxxxxx
National Weather Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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