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Service Change Notice 12-34, Corrected
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
930 AM EST Thu Jan 24 2013
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: Corrected: New WMO Header and MND Header
Block for Yakutat Bay Coastal Waters Forecast
Product Effective Date Delayed until January 29,
2013
Corrected to change implementation time from 11 pm
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to 2300 Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC).
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this change, originally
planned for January 09, 2013 is delayed until Jan 29, 2013.
Effective Tuesday, January 29, 2013, at 2 pm Alaska
Standard Time (AKST), 6 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST), or
2300 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather
Forecast Office (WFO) in Juneau, AK (AJK) will change the
WMO header for the Coastal Waters Forecast (CWF) for Yakutat
Bay (see Tables 1 and 2 below). This change is required to
upgrade the Juneau WFO weather forecasting computer system.
In addition, on January 29 at the same time, the Mass News
Disseminator (MND) header block will change to reflect WFO
Juneau as the issuing office for this product (see Tables 3
and 4 below).
Table 1: Current WMO/AWIPS header for Coastal Waters
Forecast for Yakutat Bay
Product Name WMO/AWIPS Header
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Coastal Waters Forecast FZAK57 PAYA/CWFYAK
for Yakutat Bay
Table 2: New WMO/AWIPS header for Coastal Waters Forecast
for Yakutat Bay effective January 29, 2013
Product Name WMO/AWIPS Header
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Coastal Waters Forecast FZAK53 PAJK/CWFYAK
for Yakutat Bay
Customers currently receiving the forecast product for
Yakutat Bay will need to change to the WMO/AWIPS header
shown in Table 2 to continue receiving this product.
Table 3: Current MND header block for CWF for Yakutat Bay
Marine Forecast for Yakutat Bay
National Weather Service Yakutat AK
Date/Time Group
Table 4: New MND header block for CWF for Yakutat Bay
effective January 29, 2013
Marine Forecast for Yakutat Bay
National Weather Service Juneau AK
Date/Time Group
For more information, please contact:
Tom Ainsworth Louise Fode
Meteorologist in Charge Marine Program Manager
NWS Juneau NWS Alaska Region HQ
Juneau, AK 99801 Anchorage, AK 99513
907-790-6805 907-271-3507
tom.ainsworth@xxxxxxxx louise.fode@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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