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Service Change Notice 12-34
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
924 AM EDT Fri Oct 19 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: New WMO Header and MND Header block for Yakutat Bay
Coastal Waters Forecast Product 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 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 9 at the same time, the Mass News
Disseminator (MND) header block will change to reflect WFO Juneau
is 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 9, 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 9, 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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