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NOUS41 KWBC 211752 PNSWSH Service Change Notice 10-53 National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC 1250 PM EST Tue Dec 21 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:New Fire and Public Forecast Zones and Boundary Changes for Coastal Portions of Northeast South Carolina and Southeast North Carolina , Effective Tuesday May 3, 2011Effective Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), 2 pm EDT, the NWS Weather Forecast Office in Wilmington , NC , will split five of its fire and public forecast zones in coastal portions of northeast South Carolina and southeast North Carolina in two. Current Pender (NCZ097), New Hanover (NCZ101), Brunswick (NCZ100), Horry (SCZ034) and Georgetown (SCZ046) zones will be divided into coastal and inland zones. The 10 new zones will be assigned new zone names and numbers as shown in Table 1.
These changes will allow long fused watches, warnings, advisories and forecasts for these counties to be more area specific.
The fire and public 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.
TABLE 1.New Fire and Public Zone Configuration Identifiers NEW FIRE/PUBLICUGC (Z)EXISTING FIRE/PUBLICUGC (Z) ZONE NAMEZONE Name ----------------------------------------------- INLAND PENDERNCZ105PENDERNCZ097 COASTAL PENDERNCZ106PENDERNCZ097 INLAND NEW HANOVER NCZ107NEW HANOVER NCZ101 COASTAL NEW HANOVER NCZ108NEW HANOVER NCZ101 INLAND BRUNSWICK NCZ109BRUNSWICK NCZ100 COASTAL BRUNSWICK NCZ110BRUNSWICK NCZ100 INLAND HORRYSCZ053HORRYSCZ034 COASTAL HORRYSCZ054HORRYSCZ034 INLAND GEORGETOWN SCZ055GEORGETOWN SCZ046 COASTAL GEORGETOWN SCZ056GEORGETOWN SCZ046 A map of the old zones and new zone changes can be found at: http://www.weather.gov/os/notification/images/zones.png 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 Products affected by this change are listed in Table 2.TABLE 2.Affected Fire, Public, Hydrologic, Tropical, Marine and Tsunami Products:
PRODUCT NAMEAWIPS IDWMO HEADER -------------------------------- PUBLIC ZONE FORECASTZFPILM FPUS52 KILM POINT FORECAST MATRICESPFMILMFOUS52 KILM FIRE WEATHER FORECASTFWFILMFNUS52 KILM HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKHWOILMFLUS42 KILM FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCHFFAILMWGUS62 KILM NON-PRECIP ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING NPWILMWWUS72 KILM WINTER STORM ADVSY/WATCH/WARNINGWSWILMWWUS42 KILM WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATIONWCNILMWWUS62 KILM SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENTSPSILMWWUS82 KILM PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENTPNSILMNOUS42 KILM SHORT-TERM FORECASTNOWILMFPUS72 KILM RED FLAG WARNINGRFWILMWWUS82 KILM AREA FORECAST DISCUSSIONAFDILMFXUS62 KILM AREA FORECAST MATRICESAFMILMFOUS52 KILM AIR QUALITY ALERTAQAILMAEUS72 KILM AIR QUALITY FORECASTAQIILMAEUS72 KILM SURF ZONE FORECASTSRFILMFZUS52 KILM COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGECFWILMWHUS42 KILM HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENTHLSILMWTUS82 KILM TIDAL INFORMATIONTIDILMSOUS42 KILM TROPICAL CYCLONE VTEC PRODUCTTCVAT(1-5)WTNT(81-85) KNHC TSUNAMI ADVSY/WATCH/WARNINGTSUAT1WEXX20 PAAQ If you have any questions, please contact: Michael Caropolo, Meteorologist-in-Charge Steven Pfaff, Warning Coordination Meteorologist National Weather Service Wilmington , NC 28405 910-762-0524 Michael.Caropolo@xxxxxxxx <mailto:Michael.Caropolo@xxxxxxxx> National Service Change Notices are online at: http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm $$ NNNN
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