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Service Change Notice 12-49
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1007 AM EST Fri Nov 30 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: Discontinuance of the Arkansas State Forecast Product
(SFPAR) in Favor of Individual WFO Tabular State
Forecast Products (SFTXXX) Effective January 3, 2013
Effective Thursday, January 3, 2013, at 600 AM Central Standard
Time (CST), 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS
Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Little Rock (LZK), AR, will stop
issuing the State Forecast Product (SFPAR) for the state of
Arkansas (Table 1).
Table 1: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Header and
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) ID for
Discontinued Product
PRODUCT NAME WMO HEADER AWIPS ID
------------ ---------- --------
State Forecast Product FPUS64 KLZK SFPAR
The same type of information contained in the SFPAR is already
contained in the Arkansas Tabular State Forecast Products (SFT)
(high and low temperature, predominant weather and Probability of
Precipitation forecasts for 7 days) issued by WFOs in Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Louisiana (Table 2).
Table 2: WMO Headers and AWIPS IDs for Tabular State Forecast
Products Affecting Arkansas
FORECAST REGION WMO HEADING AWIPS ID
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Central Arkansas FPUS64 KLZK SFTLZK
Northwest Arkansas FPUS64 KTSA SFTTSA
Eastern Arkansas FPUS64 KMEG SFTMEG
Southwest Arkansas FPUS64 KSHV SFTSHV
Partners and users of the SFPAR should take appropriate action to
ensure receipt of the SFT products listed in table 2 above.
SFT forecasts are available for the Arkansas cities listed in
Table 3.
Table 3: Arkansas Cities/Locations Included in SFT products
AWIPS ID AR CITY/LOCATION
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SFTLZK Harrison
Mountain Home
Cherokee Village
Batesville
Waldron
Mena
Mount Ida
Booneville
Russellville
Morrilton
Conway
Little Rock
North Little Rock
Sherwood
Jacksonville
Benton/Bryant
Hot Springs
Searcy
Newport
Brinkley
Stuttgart
Pine Bluff
Arkadelphia
Camden
Monticello
SFTTSA Fort Smith
Fayetteville
Berryville
SFTMEG Forrest City
Jonesboro
Paragould
Pocahontas
West Helena
SFTSHV Texarkana
El Dorado
An example of the SFT product issued by WFO LZK is online at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/lzk/sftlzk
For more information, please contact:
John Robinson Melinda Bailey
Warning Coordination Met. Public Program Mgr.
8400 Remount Rd. 819 Taylor St Room 10A03
North Little Rock AR 72118 Fort Worth TX 71602
Phone: 501-834-9102 X 223 Phone: 817-978-1100 X 107
Email: john.robinson@xxxxxxxx Email: melinda.bailey@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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