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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@noaa.gov
 
 
National Service Change Notices are online at:
 
 http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
 
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