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Service Change Notice 12-35
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1040 AM EDT Wed Oct 24 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Mark Tew
Chief, Marine and Coastal Weather Services Branch
Subject: Change to Dissemination of Valdez Port, Narrows and Arm
and Chiniak and Marmot Bays Coastal Waters Forecast
Products Effective January 9, 2013
Effective Wednesday, January 9, 2013, at 4 PM Alaska Standard
Time (AKST), 8 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST), 0100 Thursday
January 10, 2013, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS
Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Anchorage, AK (AFC) will
stop issuing individual Coastal Waters Forecasts (CWF) for Valdez
Port, Narrows and Arm, and Chiniak and Marmot Bays. Instead,
these products will be included in the Coastal Waters Forecast
for the Northern Gulf of Alaska Coast Up to 100nm Out Including
Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet (see Tables 1 and 2 below). This
change is required to upgrade the Anchorage WFO weather
forecasting computer system.
Table 1: Current Product Names and Headers for the Coastal Waters
Forecasts for Valdez Port, Narrows and Arm and Chiniak and Marmot
Bays, and the Northern Gulf of Alaska Up to 100nm out Including
Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet.
Current Product Name Current WMO/AWIPS Header
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Coastal Waters Forecast FZAK58 PAVW/CWFVWS
for Valdez Port, Narrows
and Arm
Coastal Waters Forecast FZAK58 PADQ/CWFADQ
for Chiniak and Marmot Bay
Coastal Waters Forecast FZAK51 PAFC/CWFAER
for the Northern Gulf of
Alaska Up to 100nm out
Including Kodiak Island
and Cook Inlet
Table 2: New Product Name and Header for the Coastal Waters
Forecasts for Valdez Port, Narrows and Arm and Chiniak and Marmot
Bays which will be included in the Coastal Waters Forecast for
the Northern Gulf of Alaska Up to 100nm Out Including Kodiak
Island and Cook Inlet effective January 9, 2013.
New Product Name New WMO/AWIPS Header
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Coastal Waters Forecast FZAK51 PAFC/CWFAER
for the Northern Gulf of
Alaska Up to 100nm Out
Including Kodiak Island
and Cook Inlet
Customers currently receiving the forecast products in Table 1
will need to change to the WMO/AWIPS header shown in Table 2 to
continue receiving this product.
For more information, please contact:
Sam Albanese Louise Fode
Warning Coordination Meteorologist Marine Program Manager
NWS Anchorage NWS Alaska Region HQ
Anchorage, AK 99502 Anchorage, AK 99513
907-266-5117 907-271-3507
Sam.albanese@xxxxxxxx louise.fode@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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