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Service Change Notice 11-06
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1243 PM EST Wed Feb 2 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: Implementation of Improved Fire and Public Weather
Coverage for Mississippi and Southeast Louisiana
Effective May 31, 2011
Effective Tuesday, May 31, 2011, at 100 pm Central Daylight Time
(CDT), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather
Forecast Office (WFO) in New Orleans/Baton Rouge Louisiana (LIX)
willreconfigure its current fire and public weather forecast
zonesfor Tangipahoa (LAZ038) Parish in southeast Louisiana.
This reconfiguration will provide better forecast services by
splittingTangipahoa Parish into two separate fire and public
weatherforecast zones for climatological, geographical and
meteorologicaleffects.
The fire and public weather forecast zones for Tangipahoa Parish
willbe split in half to form Northern Tangipahoa (LAZ071) and
Southern Tangipahoa (LAZ072). This split will account for
tropicaland coastal issues that do not impact Northern Tangipahoa
Parish and winter weather issues that to not affect
Southern Tangipahoa Parish.
The fire and public zone changes require to take appropriate
actionto 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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NORTHERN TANGIPAHOA LAZ071TANGIPAHOALAZ038
SOUTHERN TANGIPAHOA LAZ072TANGIPAHOALAZ038
More detail regarding this change (including greater detail regarding
why these fire and public zone changes are being made), graphical
depictions of the current and new fire and public zones, and a table
of WFO LIX affected products are available online at:
www.srh.weather.gov/LIX/?n=tangipahoa_breakup
<http://www.srh.weather.gov/LIX/?n=tangipahoa_breakup>
Updated fire and public weather forecast zone shapefiles are available
online at:
www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
<http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm>
and
www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
<http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm>
For more information, please contact:
Ken GrahamMelinda Bailey
Meteorologist-in-ChargePublic/Marine Meteorologist
National Weather ServiceNational Weather Service
New Orleans/Baton RougeSouthern Region Headquarters
Slidell LA 70460Fort Worth TX 76102
504-522-7330/985-649-0357817-978-1100 X107
ken.graham@xxxxxxxx <mailto:ken.graham@xxxxxxxx>melinda.bailey@xxxxxxxx
<mailto:melinda.bailey@xxxxxxxx>
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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