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Service Change Notice 10-45, Corrected
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1238 PM EDT Wed Nov 3 2010
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: Corrected to remove Civil Emergency Messages
(CEM) from the list of affected products.
Reminder: New Fire and Public Forecast Zones and
Boundary Changes for Parts of Northeast New
Jersey and Southeast New York Effective December
1, 2010
Service Change Notice (SCN) 10-45 (and by reference SCN 10-
23 amended) are corrected by removing Civil Emergency
Messages (CEM) from products listed in Table 2.
Service Change Notice (SCN) 10-23, amended, announced new
fire and public forecast zones and boundary changes for
northeast New Jersey and southeast New York effective
December 1, 2010. These changes will increase forecast
accuracy and understanding in the highly urbanized
corridors in northeast New Jersey and account for
climatological differences and coastal influences from the
Atlantic Ocean in Queens and Nassau Counties, New York.
This SCN serves as a reminder of the upcoming change.
The corrected original SCN follows:
Effective Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at 1800 Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), 1 pm EST, five existing fire and
public forecast zones in northeast New Jersey and southeast
New York will be split into 10 separate zones. The new
zones are shown below in Table 1. These fire and public
forecast zones are identical in zone name, zone number and
geographic extent.
A map and explanation of these changes is available at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/images/nj-ny.pdf
These zones are being changed to increase forecast accuracy
in highly urban versus suburban corridors of long fuse
products including watches, warnings and advisories for
coastal services (e.g., coastal flooding, high surf),
tropical weather, excessive heat, flash flooding and winter
weather. These changes will result in an improved
understanding of our critical products by the general
public and enhance our web-based graphical product
consistency and appearance.
The zone changes require partners and users to take
appropriate action to receive the new zone 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. New Fire and Public Zone Configuration
Identifiers
OLD ZONE NAME OLD UGC (Z) NEW ZONE NAME NEW UGC (Z)
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NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
BERGEN NJZ003 EASTERN BERGEN NJZ104
WESTERN BERGEN NJZ103
ESSEX NJZ005 EASTERN ESSEX NJZ106
WESTERN ESSEX NJZ105
UNION NJZ011 EASTERN UNION NJZ108
WESTERN UNION NJZ107
SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
NASSAU NYZ077 NORTHERN NASSAU NYZ177
SOUTHERN NASSAU NYZ179
QUEENS NYZ076 NORTHERN QUEENS NYZ176
SOUTHERN QUEENS NYZ178
TABLE 2. The Following Products are Affected by These
Changes:
PRODUCT NAME AWIPS ID WMO HEADER
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AREA FORECAST MATRICES AFMOKX FOUS51 KOKX
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE CFWOKX WHUS41 KOKX
DAILY RIVER SUMMARY RVDOKX FGUS51 KOKX
FIRE WEATHER FORECAST FWFOKX FNUS51 KOKX
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FFAOKX WGUS61 KOKX
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK HWOOKX FLUS41 KOKX
HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT HLSOKX WTUS81 KOKX
NON-PRECIPITATION ADVSY/
WATCH/WARNING NPWOKX WWUS71 KOKX
POINT FORECAST MATRICES PFMOKX FOUS51 KOKX
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT PNSOKX NOUS41 KOKX
PUBLIC ZONE FORECAST ZFPOKX FPUS51 KOKX
RED FLAG WARNING RFWOKX WWUS81 KOKX
REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY RWSOKX AWUS81 KOKX
SHORT-TERM FORECAST NOWOKX FPUS71 KOKX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT SPSOKX WWUS81 KOKX
SURF ZONE FORECAST SRFOKX FZUS51 KOKX
TABULAR STATE FORECAST SFTOKX FPUS61 KOKX
TROPICAL CYCLONE WATCH/WARNING TCVAT/1-5/ WTNT/81-85/KNHC
WINTER STORM ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING WSWOKX WWUS41 KOKX
An updated public zone shapefile is online at:
http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
An updated fire zone shapefile is online at:
http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
If you have any questions, please contact:
I Ross Dickman, Meteorologist-in-Charge
Gary Conte, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
National Weather Service
Upton NY 11973
631-924-0037
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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