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NOUS41 KWBC 151552
PNSWSH
Service Change Notice 12-11
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1152 AM EDT Thu Mar 15 2012
TO: Subscribers:
- Family of Services
- NOAA Weather Wire Service
- Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
- NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and employees
FROM: Eli Jacks
Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch
SUBJECT: Addition of Three Locations to the Point Forecast
Matrix and Five Locations to the Coded Cities Forecast
Products by the Brownsville Weather Forecast Office
Effective May 31, 2012
Effective Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 100 pm Central Daylight
Time (CDT), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the Point
Forecast Matrix (PFM) product issued by the NWS Weather Forecast
Office (WFO) in Brownsville, TX (BRO) will include three
additional locations.
TABLE 1. New WFO BRO PFM locations in Texas:
STATION NAME STATION ID COUNTY STATE
------------ ---------- -------- -----
Edinburg EBG Hidalgo TX
Hebbronville HBV Jim Hogg TX
Falfurrias BKS Brooks TX
Also effective Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 100 pm CDT, 1800 UTC,
the Coded Cities Forecast (CCF) product issued by NWS WFO BRO
will include five additional locations.
TABLE 2. New WFO BRO CCF locations in Texas:
STATION NAME STATION ID COUNTY STATE
------------ ---------- -------- -----
Harlingen HRL Cameron TX
Bayview PIL Cameron TX
Edinburg EBG Hidalgo TX
Hebbronville HBV Jim Hogg TX
Falfurrias BKS Brooks TX
These additional locations will be included in the following
products at least twice a day.
PRODUCT NAME WMO HEADING AWIPS ID
Point Forecast Matrix FOUS54 KBRO PFMBRO
Coded Cities Forecast FPUS54 KBRO CCFBRO
Examples of the PFM and CCF, which include the new locations,
are online at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bro/?n=pfmccf
For more information, please contact:
Steve Drillette Melinda Bailey
Meteorologist-in-Charge Public/Marine Meteorologist
NWS Brownsville NWS Southern Region
Brownsville, TX 78521-5798 Fort Worth, TX 76102
956-504-1432 817-978-1100 x107
Steve.Drillette@xxxxxxxx Melinda.Bailey@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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