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Service Change Notice 12‑08
Nation Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
340 PM EST Tue Feb 14 2012
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: Changes to the Fire Weather Forecast Service Programs
at the NWS Weather Forecast Offices in Des Moines, IA,
and Davenport, IA, Effective March 15, 2012
Effective Thursday, March 15, 2012, at 0001 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), the NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) in Des Moines (DMX), IA
and Davenport (DVN), IA, will change their issuing suite of fire weather
forecast products for their respective county warning areas of
responsibility. The following products will be issued by WFO DMX and WFO
DVN:
Table 1:WFO DMX and WFO DVN Fire Weather Products Effective March 15, 2012
Product NameWMO HeadingAWIPS ID
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Fire Weather Planning ForecastFNUS53 KDMXFWFDMX
Site-Specific (Spot) ForecastFNUS73 KDMXFWSDMX
Fire Weather Watch/Red Flag WarningWWUS83 KDMXRFWDMX
Fire Weather Planning ForecastFNUS53 KDVNFWFDVN
Site-Specific (Spot) ForecastFNUS73 KDVNFWSDVN
Fire Weather Watch/Red Flag WarningWWUS83 KDVNRFWDVN
DMX and DVN currently issue Site-Specific (Spot) Forecasts (FWSDMX and
FWSDVN).These forecasts will continue as part of WFO DMX’s and DVN’s
fire weather forecast product suite; however, both DMX and DVN will
discontinue their Grassland Fire Danger Product (RFDDMX and RFDDVN) on
March 15, 2012.Information regarding grassland fire danger will be
included in the new Fire Weather Planning Forecasts (FWFDMX and FWFDVN).
The fire weather planning forecasts will provide each county in WFO DMX
and WFO DVN areas of responsibility with a fire weather forecast. A list
of the counties involved and the zone number of each county is online
from the NWS Management Information Retrieval System at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mirs/
Because no changes to fire weather forecast zones are being made,
current and future fire weather zone shapefiles will have the correct
zones for WFO DMX and DVN.Fire weather forecast zone shapefiles are
available online at:
www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
<http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm>
Partners and users of these products will need to add the above product
headers/identifiers to their communications systems to receive these NWS
products:
If you have any questions, please contact:
Brenda Brock
National Weather Service – Des Moines
Meteorologist-in-Charge
Johnston, IA 50131
brenda.brock@xxxxxxxx <mailto:brenda.brock@xxxxxxxx>
or
Stephan Kuhl
National Weather Service – Quad Cities
Meteorologist-in-Charge
Davenport, IA 52806
stephan.kuhl@xxxxxxxx <mailto:stephan.kuhl@xxxxxxxx>
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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