[nws-changes] 20130715: change in fire & public wx forecast zone names-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20130715: change in fire & public wx forecast zone names-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:02:20 -0600

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Service Change Notice 13-44
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
300 PM EDT Mon Jul 15 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:  Change in Fire and Public Weather Forecast Zone
          Names for NWS Weather Forecast Office San Francisco
          Bay Area/Monterey, CA, Effective August 15, 2013

Effective Thursday, August 15, 2013, at 800 AM Pacific Daylight
Time, 1500 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), NWS Weather Forecast
Office (WFO) San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey, CA, (MTR), will
rename fire and public weather forecast zones CAZ518.

Table 1:  Changed WFO MTR, CA, Fire and Public Weather Forecast
Zone Name

Zone Code   Old Fire/Public Zone Name   New Zone Name
---------   -------------               -------------
CAZ518      Mountains of San Benito     Mountains of San Benito
            County and Interior         County and Interior
            Monterey County including   Monterey County including
            Pinnacles National          Pinnacles National
            Monument                    Park

This changed is required because of a change in the designation
of Pinnacles National Monument to Pinnacles National Park. This
is only a name change. No change is being made to fire or public
weather forecast zones geographic extents or zone numbers.

An updated fire weather zone shapefile is online at:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm

An updated public weather zone shapefile is online at:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm

Partners and users of WFO MTR fire and public weather products
will need to update their system(s) to continue receiving correct
fire and public weather forecasts/products.

For more information, please contact:

Logan Johnson
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
WFO San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey
Monterey, CA 93943-5505
logan.johnson@xxxxxxxx

National Service Change Notices are online at:

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

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