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Service Change Notice 13-63
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
243 PM EDT Thu Sep 19 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: New Public Zones and Boundary Changes for Parts of
Central and Northeast Oregon and Southeast Washington,
Effective December 3, 2013
Effective Tuesday, December 3, 2013, at 1200 Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC), 4:00 AM PST, NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO)
Pendleton (PDT), OR, will make modifications to some of its public
zones to better represent climatological conditions and to follow
terrain features more closely.
The main change will be to split ORZ042 (North Central Oregon)
into a northern and southern part forming two new zones (ORZ510
and ORZ511). In addition, the metropolitan area of Bend, Oregon,
will be included in the new southernmost zone (ORZ511) Central
Oregon) and removed from OZ509 (East Slopes of the Oregon
Cascades) because of its lower average annual snowfall.
Minor border adjustments will also be made to
WAZ024 (Eastern Columbia River Gorge of Washington)
WAZ520 (East Slopes of the Washington Cascades)
WAZ521 (Simcoe Highlands)
ORZ041 (Eastern Columbia River Gorge of Oregon)
ORZ044 (Lower Columbia Basin of Oregon).
A map and detailed explanation of these changes is online at:
Http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pdt/reference/Zone_Alterations_2013.pdf
These zone changes require partners and users to take appropriate
action to receive products using the Universal Generic Code (UGC)
Zone Code Format (Z) listed in Table 1. Products affected by this
change are listed in Table 2.
Table 1. Old/New public zone names and UGC(Z) codes.
OLD ZONE NAME OLD UGC (Z) NEW ZONE NAME NEW UGC (Z)
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North Central ORZ042 North Central ORZ510
Oregon Oregon (unchanged)
North Central ORZ042 Central Oregon ORZ511
Oregon
Table 2. Products affected by these changes.
PRODUCT NAME AWIPS ID WMO HEADER
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Civil Emergency Message CEMPDT WOUS41 KPDT
Flash Flood Watch FFAPDT WGUS61 KPDT
Hazardous Weather Outlook HWOPDT FLUS41 KPDT
Non-Precipitation Advsy/Watch/Warning NPWPDT WWUS71 KPDT
Public Zone Forecast ZFPPDT FPUS51 KPDT
Short-Term Forecast NOWPDT FPUS71 KPDT
Special Weather Statement SPSPDT WWUS81 KPDT
Winter Storm Advsy/Watch/Warning WSWPDT WWUS41 KPDT
Area Forecast Discussion AFDPDT FXUS66 KPDT
Public Information Statement PNSPDT NOUS46 KPDT
Hydrologic Outlook ESFPDT FGUS76 KPDT
An updated public zone shapefile is online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
For more information, please contact:
Michael Vescio
Meteorologist in Charge
National Weather Service
Pendleton OR 97801
541-276-7832
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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