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Service Change Notice 13-44
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
300 PM EDT Mon Jul 15 2013
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: Change in Fire and Public Weather Forecast Zone
Names for NWS Weather Forecast Office San Francisco
Bay Area/Monterey, CA, Effective August 15, 2013
Effective Thursday, August 15, 2013, at 800 AM Pacific Daylight
Time, 1500 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), NWS Weather Forecast
Office (WFO) San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey, CA, (MTR), will
rename fire and public weather forecast zones CAZ518.
Table 1: Changed WFO MTR, CA, Fire and Public Weather Forecast
Zone Name
Zone Code Old Fire/Public Zone Name New Zone Name
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CAZ518 Mountains of San Benito Mountains of San Benito
County and Interior County and Interior
Monterey County including Monterey County including
Pinnacles National Pinnacles National
Monument Park
This changed is required because of a change in the designation
of Pinnacles National Monument to Pinnacles National Park. This
is only a name change. No change is being made to fire or public
weather forecast zones geographic extents or zone numbers.
An updated fire weather zone shapefile is online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
An updated public weather zone shapefile is online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
Partners and users of WFO MTR fire and public weather products
will need to update their system(s) to continue receiving correct
fire and public weather forecasts/products.
For more information, please contact:
Logan Johnson
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
WFO San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey
Monterey, CA 93943-5505
logan.johnson@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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