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Service Change Notice 11-04
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
724 AM EST Wed Jan 26 2011
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: Discontinuance of the Florida State Forecast Product
(SFPFL) in Favor of Individual WFO Tabular State
Forecast Products (SFTXXX) Effective March 1, 2011
Effective March 1, 2011, at 700 AM Eastern Standard Time, 1200
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather Forecast
Office (WFO) in Miami (MFL), FL, will stop issuing the State
Forecast Product (SFPFL) for the state of Florida (Table 1.)
Table 1: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Header and
Advanced Weather Interactive Prediction System ID for
Discontinued Product
PRODUCT NAME WMO HEADER AWIPS ID
State Forecast Product FPUS62 KMFL SFPFL
The same type of information contained in the SFPFL is already
contained in the Florida Tabular State Forecast Products (SFT)
(high and low temperature, predominant weather and Probability
of Precipitation forecasts for 7 days) issued by WFOs in Florida
and Alabama (Table 2).
Table 2: WMO Headers and AWIPS IDs for Tabular State Forecast
Products Affecting Florida
FORECAST REGION WMO HEADING AWIPS ID
W Florida Panhandle FPUS64 KMOB SFTMOB
E Florida Panhandle FPUS62 KTAE SFTTAE
Northeast Florida FPUS62 KJAX SFTJAX
East Central Florida FPUS62 KMLB SFTMLB
W Central/SW Florida FPUS62 KTBW SFTTBW
South Florida FPUS62 KMFL SFTMFL
Florida Keys FPUS62 KKEY SFTKEY
Partners and users of the SFPFL should take appropriate action
to ensure receipt of the SFT products listed in Table 2 above.
SFT forecasts are available for the Florida cities listed in
Table 3.
Table 3: Florida Cities/Locations Included in SFT products
AWIPS ID FL CITY/LOCATION
SFTMOB Pensacola
Destin
SFTTAE Tallahassee
Panama City
De Funiak Springs
Marianna
Apalachicola
Alligator Point
Monticello
Madison
Perry
Cross City
SFTJAX Gainesville
Jacksonville
Jacksonville Beach
Lake City
Ocala
Palatka
St. Augustine
SFTMLB Daytona Beach
Melbourne/Palm Bay
Vero Beach
Fort Pierce
Stuart
Deland
Leesburg
Sanford
Orlando
Kissimmee/St Cloud
Okeechobee
SFTTBW Chiefland
Cedar Key
Crystal River
Inverness
Spring Hill
Brooksville
New Port Richey
Zephyrhills
Tampa
Brandon
Saint Petersburg
Clearwater
Bradenton
Sarasota
Venice
Wildwood
Lakeland
Winter Haven
Bartow
Wauchula
Sebring
Arcadia
Fort Myers
Punta Gorda
Cape Coral
Sanibel Island
SFTMFL Naples
Everglades City
Flamingo
Immokalee
Moore Haven
La Belle
Belle Glade
West Palm Beach
Fort Lauderdale
Miami
Miami Beach
Homestead
Homestead General
SFTKEY Key Largo
Marathon
Key West
An example of the SFT product issued by WFO MFL is available
online at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/mfl/sftmfl
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Pablo Santos Melinda Bailey
Meteorologist-in-Charge Public Program Manager
11691 SW 17 St 819 Taylor St Room 10A03
Miami FL 33165 Fort Worth TX 71602
305-229-4502 817-978-1100 x107
pablo.santos@xxxxxxxx melinda.bailey@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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