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Service Change Notice 11-04

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

724 AM EST Wed Jan 26 2011

  

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:  Discontinuance of the Florida State Forecast Product

          (SFPFL) in Favor of Individual WFO Tabular State

          Forecast Products (SFTXXX) Effective March 1, 2011

 

Effective March 1, 2011, at 700 AM Eastern Standard Time, 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Miami (MFL), FL, will stop issuing the State Forecast Product (SFPFL) for the state of Florida (Table 1.)

 

Table 1:  World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Header and Advanced Weather Interactive Prediction System ID for Discontinued Product

 

    PRODUCT NAME              WMO HEADER         AWIPS ID

 

    State Forecast Product    FPUS62 KMFL        SFPFL

 

The same type of information contained in the SFPFL is already contained in the Florida Tabular State Forecast Products (SFT) (high and low temperature, predominant weather and Probability of Precipitation forecasts for 7 days) issued by WFOs in Florida and Alabama (Table 2).

 

Table 2:  WMO Headers and AWIPS IDs for Tabular State Forecast Products Affecting Florida

 

    FORECAST REGION           WMO HEADING        AWIPS ID

 

    W Florida Panhandle       FPUS64 KMOB        SFTMOB

    E Florida Panhandle       FPUS62 KTAE        SFTTAE

    Northeast Florida          FPUS62 KJAX        SFTJAX

    East Central Florida         FPUS62 KMLB        SFTMLB

    W Central/SW Florida         FPUS62 KTBW        SFTTBW

    South Florida              FPUS62 KMFL        SFTMFL

    Florida Keys               FPUS62 KKEY        SFTKEY

 

 

Partners and users of the SFPFL should take appropriate action to ensure receipt of the SFT products listed in Table 2 above.

 

SFT forecasts are available for the Florida cities listed in Table 3.

 

Table 3:  Florida Cities/Locations Included in SFT products

  

    AWIPS ID          FL CITY/LOCATION
 
    SFTMOB            Pensacola
                      Destin
 
    SFTTAE            Tallahassee
                      Panama City
                      De Funiak Springs
                      Marianna
                      Apalachicola
                      Alligator Point
                      Monticello
                      Madison
                      Perry
                      Cross City
 
    SFTJAX            Gainesville
                      Jacksonville
                      Jacksonville Beach
                      Lake City
                      Ocala
                      Palatka
                      St. Augustine
 
    SFTMLB            Daytona Beach
                      Melbourne/Palm Bay
                      Vero Beach
                      Fort Pierce
                      Stuart
                      Deland
                      Leesburg
                      Sanford
                      Orlando
                      Kissimmee/St Cloud
                      Okeechobee
 
    SFTTBW            Chiefland
                      Cedar Key
                      Crystal River
                      Inverness
                      Spring Hill
                      Brooksville
                      New Port Richey
                      Zephyrhills
                      Tampa
                      Brandon
                      Saint Petersburg
                      Clearwater
                      Bradenton
                      Sarasota
                      Venice
                      Wildwood
                      Lakeland
                      Winter Haven
                      Bartow
                      Wauchula
                      Sebring
                      Arcadia
                      Fort Myers
                      Punta Gorda
                      Cape Coral
                      Sanibel Island
 
    SFTMFL            Naples
                      Everglades City
                      Flamingo
                      Immokalee
                      Moore Haven
                      La Belle
                      Belle Glade
                      West Palm Beach
                      Fort Lauderdale
                      Miami
                      Miami Beach
                      Homestead
                      Homestead General
 
    SFTKEY            Key Largo
                      Marathon
                      Key West

 

An example of the SFT product issued by WFO MFL is available online at:

 

    http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/mfl/sftmfl

 

For more information, please contact:

 

    Dr. Pablo Santos               Melinda Bailey

    Meteorologist-in-Charge       Public Program Manager

    11691 SW 17 St                819 Taylor St Room 10A03

    Miami FL 33165                 Fort Worth TX 71602

    305-229-4502                  817-978-1100 x107

    pablo.santos@noaa.gov         melinda.bailey@noaa.gov

 

National Service Change Notices are online at:

 

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

 

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