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Service Change Notice 11-16
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
224 PM EDT Mon Mar 28 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
Forecasts for Southeast Texas Effective August 4, 2011
Effective Thursday, August 4, 2011, at 100 pm Central Daylight
Time (CDT), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS
Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Lake Charles, Louisiana (LCH)
will reconfigure its current fire and public weather forecast
zones for Jasper (TXZ181) County and Newton (TXZ182) County in
southeast Texas.
This reconfiguration will provide better fire and public
forecast services by splitting each of these counties into
separate northern and southern forecast zones. This change is
being made because of the large meteorological, climatological
and geographical differences from north to south.
The fire and public weather forecast zones for Jasper (TXZ181)
County will be split to form Northern Jasper (TXZ259) and
Southern Jasper (TXZ261). Newton (TXZ182) County will be
split to form Northern Newton (TXZ260) and Southern Newton
(TXZ262). This split will account for tropical cyclone, fire
weather and winter weather impacts that only affect one portion
of these counties and not the other.
These fire and public zone changes require users to take
appropriate action to receive the new zone products using the
Universal Generic Code (UGC) zone code format(Z) in Table 1.
TABLE 1: New Fire and Public Zone Configuration Identifiers
NEW FIRE/PUBLIC UGC (Z) EXISTING FIRE/PUBLIC UGC (Z)
ZONE NAME ZONE NAME
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NORTHERN JASPER TXZ259 JASPER TXZ181
SOUTHERN JASPER TXZ261 JASPER TXZ181
NORTHERN NEWTON TXZ260 NEWTON TXZ182
SOUTHERN NEWTON TXZ262 NEWTON TXZ182
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 LCH affected products are
online at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/?n=jaspernewton_zonereconfig
Updated fire and public weather forecast zone shapefiles are
online at:
www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
and
www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
For more information, please contact:
Andy Patrick Melinda Bailey
Meteorologist-in-Charge Public/Marine Meteorologist
WFO Lake Charles NWS Southern Region Headquarters
Lake Charles LA 70607 Fort Worth TX 76102
337-477-5285 817-978-1100 X107
andy.patrick@xxxxxxxx melinda.bailey@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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