[nws-changes] 20111122: format changes marine fcsts Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:17:54 -0700

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Service Change Notice 11-38
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
230 PM EST Tues Nov 22 2011

TO:          Subscribers:
             -Family of Services
             -NOAA Weather Wire Service
             -Emergency Manager Weather Information Network
             -NOAAPORT
             Other NWS partners and NWS employees

FROM:        Therese Z. Pierce
             Chief, Marine and Coastal Services Branch

SUBJECT:     Changes to the format of the Marine Forecast
Matrices Issued by Weather Forecast Office
Honolulu: Effective March 1, 2012

Effective Thursday, March 1, 2012, at 400 AM Hawaiian Standard
Time (HST), 1400 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the National
Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Honolulu,
Hawaii will change the format of the text product, Marine
Forecast Matrices (MFM).  The change will; 1) remove references
to Swell1, Swell2, Swell3 etc., Period1, Period2, Period3 etc.,
and have all swells and periods designated simply as "Swell" and
Period, and 2) add line breaks between each swell and period.

This change is being made to improve the clarity, readability
and utility of the text product.

See
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/pages/examples/MFM.pdf
for examples of the current format and proposed new format of
the affected portions of the product.

Table 1 lists the product issued by WFO Honolulu that will
be affected by the change to the MFM format.

Table 1: WFO Honolulu product affected by the text format
changes effective March 1, 2012.

PRODUCT NAME                 WMO HEADING      AWIPS ID

Marine Forecast Matrices     FXHW40 PHFO      MFMHFO

Customers do not need to take any actions in order to continue
receiving this product.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact

   Raymond Tanabe
   Meteorologist in Charge
   National Weather Service Honolulu
   2525 Correa Road
   Suite 250
   Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
   808 973 5282
   Raymond.Tanabe@xxxxxxxx


National Service Change Notices are online at:

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

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