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Service Change Notice 11-40 Corrected
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1003 AM EST Thu Dec 13 2012
TO: Subscribers:
- Family of Services
- NOAA Weather Wire Service
- Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
- NOAAPort
Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees
FROM: Mark Tew
Chief, Marine and Coastal Services Branch
SUBJECT: Corrected: Changes in Offshore Waters Marine Zones
For the Caribbean and Southwest North Atlantic
and the Gulf of Mexico Effective April 3, 2012
NWS created an Offshore Marine Waters shape file for the Gulf of
Mexico, Caribbean, and Atlantic waters that incorrectly
eliminated the NWS Eastern Region (ER) coastal marine zones,
20-40 nautical miles (nm) from shore, from the shape file. These
20-40 nm zones extend from Weather Forecast Office (WFO)
Charleston, SC, marine area of responsibility northward to WFO
Caribou, ME, marine area of responsibility. This incorrect
shapefile was implemented operationally on April 3, 2012.
The corrected zone map shape file is available for download from
the following web site:
www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/marinezones.htm
NWS ER WFOs issue short term warnings for these 20-40 nm zones.
For long term warning and forecast purposes, these areas are
shared with the NWS Ocean Prediction Center (OPC) offshore marine
zones.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/zone/south/stheastmz.htm
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/zone/east/ermzn.htm for
graphic locations of these 20-40 nm zones from shore:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/zone/wrdoffmz.htm
for graphic images of the offshore marine zones.
If you have any questions or comments about this shape file
please contact:
Richard May/OS21
Marine Meteorologist
National Weather Service
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-713-1677 x 127
richard.may@xxxxxxxx
NWS Service Change Notices are posted at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm
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