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Service Change Notice 10-53
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1250 PM EST Tue Dec 21 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:New Fire and Public Forecast Zones and Boundary
Changes for Coastal Portions of Northeast South
Carolina and Southeast North Carolina , Effective
Tuesday May 3, 2011
Effective Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at 1800 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), 2 pm EDT, the NWS Weather Forecast Office in Wilmington , NC ,
will split five of its fire and public forecast zones in coastal
portions of northeast South Carolina and southeast North Carolina in
two. Current Pender (NCZ097), New Hanover (NCZ101), Brunswick (NCZ100),
Horry (SCZ034) and Georgetown (SCZ046) zones will be divided into
coastal and inland zones. The 10 new zones will be assigned new zone
names and numbers as shown in Table 1.
These changes will allow long fused watches, warnings, advisories and
forecasts for these counties to be more area specific.
The fire and public zone changes require partners and users to take
appropriate action to receive the new zone products using the Universal
Generic Code (UGC) zone code format (Z) listed in Table 1.
TABLE 1.New Fire and Public Zone Configuration Identifiers
NEW FIRE/PUBLICUGC (Z)EXISTING FIRE/PUBLICUGC (Z)
ZONE NAMEZONE Name
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INLAND PENDERNCZ105PENDERNCZ097
COASTAL PENDERNCZ106PENDERNCZ097
INLAND NEW HANOVER NCZ107NEW HANOVER NCZ101
COASTAL NEW HANOVER NCZ108NEW HANOVER NCZ101
INLAND BRUNSWICK NCZ109BRUNSWICK NCZ100
COASTAL BRUNSWICK NCZ110BRUNSWICK NCZ100
INLAND HORRYSCZ053HORRYSCZ034
COASTAL HORRYSCZ054HORRYSCZ034
INLAND GEORGETOWN SCZ055GEORGETOWN SCZ046
COASTAL GEORGETOWN SCZ056GEORGETOWN SCZ046
A map of the old zones and new zone changes can be found at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notification/images/zones.png
An updated public zone shapefile is online at:
http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
An updated fire zone shapefile is online at:
http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
Products affected by this change are listed in Table 2.
TABLE 2.Affected Fire, Public, Hydrologic, Tropical, Marine and Tsunami
Products:
PRODUCT NAMEAWIPS IDWMO HEADER
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PUBLIC ZONE FORECASTZFPILM FPUS52 KILM
POINT FORECAST MATRICESPFMILMFOUS52 KILM
FIRE WEATHER FORECASTFWFILMFNUS52 KILM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKHWOILMFLUS42 KILM
FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCHFFAILMWGUS62 KILM
NON-PRECIP ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING NPWILMWWUS72 KILM
WINTER STORM ADVSY/WATCH/WARNINGWSWILMWWUS42 KILM
WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATIONWCNILMWWUS62 KILM
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENTSPSILMWWUS82 KILM
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENTPNSILMNOUS42 KILM
SHORT-TERM FORECASTNOWILMFPUS72 KILM
RED FLAG WARNINGRFWILMWWUS82 KILM
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSIONAFDILMFXUS62 KILM
AREA FORECAST MATRICESAFMILMFOUS52 KILM
AIR QUALITY ALERTAQAILMAEUS72 KILM
AIR QUALITY FORECASTAQIILMAEUS72 KILM
SURF ZONE FORECASTSRFILMFZUS52 KILM
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGECFWILMWHUS42 KILM
HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENTHLSILMWTUS82 KILM
TIDAL INFORMATIONTIDILMSOUS42 KILM
TROPICAL CYCLONE VTEC PRODUCTTCVAT(1-5)WTNT(81-85) KNHC
TSUNAMI ADVSY/WATCH/WARNINGTSUAT1WEXX20 PAAQ
If you have any questions, please contact:
Michael Caropolo, Meteorologist-in-Charge
Steven Pfaff, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
National Weather Service
Wilmington , NC 28405
910-762-0524
Michael.Caropolo@xxxxxxxx <mailto:Michael.Caropolo@xxxxxxxx>
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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