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Service Change Notice 11-33
National Weather Service Headquarters
Washington DC
1240 PM EDT Tue Sep 13 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: Modification of Fire and Public Weather Zone
Boundary between the Yukon Delta and Lower Yukon
Valley Zones in Western Alaska Effective
October 13, 2011
Effective Thursday, October 13, 2011, at
1000 AM Alaska Daylight Time (ADT), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the
NWS Fairbanks, AK, Weather Forecast Office (WFO AFG) will modify
the boundary between the western Alaska fire
and public
forecast zones of the Yukon Delta (PKZ214) and
Lower Yukon
Valley (PKZ215).
Table 1. Zone (Z) Form of the Universal Geographic Code (UGC) and Fire/Public Forecast Zone Names/Numbers for WFO AFG Users
Fire/Public Zone Name Fire/Public Zone Number UGC (Z)
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Yukon Delta PKZ214
Lower Yukon Valley PKZ215
This change will modify the shapefiles for
fire and public weather forecast zones PKZ214 and PKZ215 in western
Alaska. Currently the fire and public
weather forecast zone for the Lower Yukon Valley (PKZ215) includes the village
of Marshall, Alaska. With this change the village of Marshall, Alaska will be
part of the Yukon Delta fire/public zone (PKZ214).
A graphical depiction and detailed
explanation of this zone modification is available online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/fire/akzone.pdf
All WFO AFG fire and public weather
products that use the zone (Z) form of the UGC are affected.
Table 2. Affected WFO AFG Products
PRODUCT
NAME WMO
HEADER AWIPS ID
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CIVIL
EMERGENCY MESSAGE WOAK49 PAFG CEMAFG
FIRE
WEATHER PLANNING FORECAST FNAK52
PAFG FWFWCZ
FIRE
WEATHER WATCH/RED FLAG WARNING WWAK62 PAFG RFWWCZ
FLASH
FLOOD STATEMENT WGAK79 PAFG FFSAFG
FLASH
FLOOD WARNING WGAK59 PAFG FFWAFG
FLASH
FLOOD WATCH/FLOOD WATCH WGAK69 PAFG FFAAFG
FLOOD
STATEMENT WGAK89
PAFG FLSAFG
FLOOD
WARNING WGAK49 PAFG FLWAFG
NON-PRECIPITATION
ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING WWAK72 PAFG NPWWCZ
PUBLIC
ZONE FORECAST FPAK52 PAFG ZFPWCZ
RIVER STATEMENT FGAK89 PAFG RVSAFG
SEVERE
THUNDESTORM WARNING WUAK59
PAFG SVRAFG
SPECIAL
WEATHER STATEMENT WWAK82 PAFG SPSWCZ
TORNADO
WARNING WFAK59 PAFG TORAFG
WINTER
STORM ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING WWAK42 PAFG WSWWCZ
Partners and users affected by these
changes need to take the appropriate action to ensure their systems will update
the shapefiles for these fire and public zone realignments for Yukon Delta and
the Lower Yukon Valley zones of western Alaska.
An updated public zone map shapefile is online
at:
http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
An updated fire zone map shapefile is online
at:
http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
For more information, please contact:
John Lingaas Aimee Fish
Warning Coordination Meteorologist Public Program Manager
NWS Fairbanks NWS Alaska Region HQ
Fairbanks, AK 99775 Anchorage, AK 99513
907-458-3712 907-271-3451
john.lingaas@noaa.gov aimee.fish@noaa.gov
National Service Change Notices are online
at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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