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The attached ASCII file was sent today on AWIPS/NOAAPORT/NWWS/FOS/EMWIN and is posted at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm This message has been bcc'ed to NWS customers, partners, and employees who have asked to receive Service Change Notices via e-mail. To join or exit this list, e-mail Melody.Magnus@xxxxxxxx Melody Magnus National Weather Service Office of Services Notification Coordinator scn10-33pdt_zones_cca.txt NOUS41 KWBC 311141 CCA PNSWSH Service Change Notice 10-33 Corrected National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC 740 AM EDT Tue Aug 31 2010 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: Corrected to add "the" to several new zone names. New public forecast zones and boundary changes for parts of central and northeast Oregon and southeast Washington effective October 15, 2010 Effective Friday, October 15, 2010, at 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), 0500 am PDT, Weather Forecast Office (WFO) Pendleton, OR (PDT), will make modifications to all of its public zones to better represent climatological conditions and to follow terrain features more closely. Oregon Zone 504 will be eliminated. Oregon Zone 508 will be created. This new zone is in the foothills of the southern Blue Mountains of Oregon. A map and explanation of these changes is online at: http://www.weather.gov/os/notifications/resources/pdt_zones.pdf These zones are being changed to increase forecast accuracy and provide better service, especially for long fuse products, including watches, warnings and advisories. The changes will result in an improved understanding of critical NWS products by the general public and enhance NWS web-based graphical product consistency and appearance. This change does not affect current fire weather zones. A description of the new zones is shown in Table 1. Table 1. New Public Zone Configuration Identifiers Old Zone Name Old UGC (Z) New Zone Name New UGC (Z) ----------------------------------------------------------- Washington East Slopes of WAZ501 East Slopes of the WAZ520 Central Cascades Washington Cascades of Washington East Slopes of WAZ502 Simcoe Highlands WAZ521 Southern Cascades of Washington Oregon Foothills of ORZ501 Foothills of ORZ507 Blue Mountains of the Northern Blue Oregon Mountains of Oregon Foothills of ORZ501 Foothills of ORZ508 Blue Mountains of the Southern Blue Oregon Mountains of Oregon Central Oregon ORZ043 East Slopes of ORZ509 the Oregon Cascades Northern Wheeler ORZ504 discontinued and Southern Gilliam Counties An updated public zone shapefile is online at: http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm Table 2. Products Are Affected by These Changes Product name WMO Header AWIPS ID ------------------------------------------------------------- Flash Flood Watch WGUS61 KPDT FFAPDT Hazardous Weather Outlook FLUS41 KPDT HWOPDT Non-Precipitation Advsy/Watch/Warning WWUS71 KPDT NPWPDT Public Zone Forecast FPUS51 KPDT ZFPPDT Short-term Forecast FPUS71 KPDT NOWPDT Special Weather Statement WWUS81 KPDT SPSPDT Winter Storm Advsy/Watch/Warning WWUS41 KPDT WSWPDT Partners and users must reprogram affected hardware and software to continue correctly processing products affected by this reconfiguration. These changes only affect products that use the zone form of the Universal Geographic Code (UGC) and do not affect products that use the county form of UGC. If you have any questions, please contact: Michael Vescio Meteorologist-in-Charge National Weather Service Pendleton, OR 97801 541-276-7832 National Service Change Notices are online at: http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm $$ NNNN Melody Magnus <melody.magnus@xxxxxxxx <mailto:melody.magnus@xxxxxxxx>> Webmaster Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services National Weather Service --
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