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Service Change Notice 11-33
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1240 PM EDT Tue Sep 13 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: Modification of Fire and Public Weather Zone
Boundary between the Yukon Delta and Lower Yukon
Valley Zones in Western Alaska Effective
October 13, 2011
Effective Thursday, October 13, 2011, at 1000 AM Alaska Daylight
Time (ADT), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS
Fairbanks, AK, Weather Forecast Office (WFO AFG) will modify
the boundary between the western Alaska fire and public
forecast zones of the Yukon Delta (PKZ214) and Lower Yukon
Valley (PKZ215).
Table 1. Zone (Z) Form of the Universal Geographic Code (UGC)
and Fire/Public Forecast Zone Names/Numbers for WFO AFG Users
Fire/Public Zone Name Fire/Public Zone Number UGC (Z)
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Yukon Delta PKZ214
Lower Yukon Valley PKZ215
This change will modify the shapefiles for fire and public
weather forecast zones PKZ214 and PKZ215 in western Alaska.
Currently the fire and public weather forecast zone for the
Lower Yukon Valley (PKZ215) includes the village of Marshall,
Alaska. With this change the village of Marshall, Alaska will be
part of the Yukon Delta fire/public zone (PKZ214).
A graphical depiction and detailed explanation of this zone
modification is available online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/fire/akzone.pdf
All WFO AFG fire and public weather products that use the zone
(Z) form of the UGC are affected.
Table 2. Affected WFO AFG Products
PRODUCT NAME WMO HEADER AWIPS ID
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CIVIL EMERGENCY MESSAGE WOAK49 PAFG CEMAFG
FIRE WEATHER PLANNING FORECAST FNAK52 PAFG FWFWCZ
FIRE WEATHER WATCH/RED FLAG WARNING WWAK62 PAFG RFWWCZ
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT WGAK79 PAFG FFSAFG
FLASH FLOOD WARNING WGAK59 PAFG FFWAFG
FLASH FLOOD WATCH/FLOOD WATCH WGAK69 PAFG FFAAFG
FLOOD STATEMENT WGAK89 PAFG FLSAFG
FLOOD WARNING WGAK49 PAFG FLWAFG
NON-PRECIPITATION ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING WWAK72 PAFG NPWWCZ
PUBLIC ZONE FORECAST FPAK52 PAFG ZFPWCZ
RIVER STATEMENT FGAK89 PAFG RVSAFG
SEVERE THUNDESTORM WARNING WUAK59 PAFG SVRAFG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT WWAK82 PAFG SPSWCZ
TORNADO WARNING WFAK59 PAFG TORAFG
WINTER STORM ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING WWAK42 PAFG WSWWCZ
Partners and users affected by these changes need to take the
appropriate action to ensure their systems will update the
shapefiles for these fire and public zone realignments for Yukon
Delta and the Lower Yukon Valley zones of western Alaska.
An updated public zone map shapefile is online at:
http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
An updated fire zone map shapefile is online at:
http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm
For more information, please contact:
John Lingaas Aimee Fish
Warning Coordination Meteorologist Public Program Manager
NWS Fairbanks NWS Alaska Region HQ
Fairbanks, AK 99775 Anchorage, AK 99513
907-458-3712 907-271-3451
john.lingaas@xxxxxxxx aimee.fish@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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