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-------- Original Message -------- 387 NOUS41 KWBC 211746 PNSWSH Service Change Notice 13-35 National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC 146 PM EDT Tue May 21 2013To: Subscribers:
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Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Mark Tew
Chief, Marine and Coastal Weather Services Branch
Subject: Expansion of the National Official Offshore Text
Forecast Product to Include the US Arctic Waters
Effective June 4, 2013
Effective Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at 4:00 PM Alaska Daylight Time
(AKDT), 8:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), 0000 Wednesday
June 5, 2013 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather
Forecast Office (WFO) in Fairbanks, Alaska, will implement the
official text forecast and synopsis for the offshore waters area
of responsibility in U.S. Arctic Waters.
The experimental phase of this forecast was implemented on
June 2, 2009, as announced in Service Change Notice (SCN) 09-02,
which can be found here:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/scn09-02afg_arctic1.txt
The evaluation of the additional zone forecasts resulted in
favorable comments and the zones, synopsis and forecast will be
included as part of the official product on June 4, 2013.
Table 1 lists the product issued by WFO Fairbanks that will
be affected by the change from experimental to operational
status.
Table 2 lists all the marine zones and Universal Geographic Codes
(UGCs) issued by WFO Fairbanks that will be affected by this change from experimental to operational status.Table 1: WFO Fairbanks products affected by the marine zone
changes effective June 4, 2013.Product Name WMO Heading AWIPS ID
------------ ----------- -------- Offshore Waters Forecast FZAK69 PAFG OFFAFG for the US Arctic Waters Table 2: Current Arctic Offshore forecast zones, synopsis and corresponding Universal Geographic Codes (UGC). Current Marine Zone Name UGC ------------------------ -------- Western US Arctic Offshore PKZ500 Central US Arctic Offshore PKZ505 Eastern US Arctic Offshore PKZ510 Synopsis for US Arctic Offshore PKZ599 No action is needed to continue receiving this product. For more information, please contact:John Lingaas Louise Fode
Warning Coordination Meteorologist Marine Program Manager National Weather Service National Weather Service WFO Fairbanks Alaska Region Headquarters UAF-IARC Bldg 222 W 7th Ave Rm 517 #23 Fairbanks, AK 99775 Anchorage, AK 99513 (907) 458-3712 907-271-3507 john.lingaas@xxxxxxxx louise.fode@xxxxxxxx National Service Change Notices are online at:http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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