[nws-changes] 20120315: additions of 3 locations to Point Forecast Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20120315: additions of 3 locations to Point Forecast Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:04:42 -0600

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NOUS41 KWBC 151552
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Service Change Notice 12-11
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1152 AM EDT Thu Mar 15 2012

TO:      Subscribers:
         - Family of Services
         - NOAA Weather Wire Service
         - Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
         - NOAAPORT
         Other NWS partners and employees

FROM:    Eli Jacks
         Chief, Fire and Public Weather Services Branch

SUBJECT: Addition of Three Locations to the Point Forecast
         Matrix and Five Locations to the Coded Cities Forecast
         Products by the Brownsville Weather Forecast Office
         Effective May 31, 2012

Effective Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 100 pm Central Daylight
Time (CDT), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the Point
Forecast Matrix (PFM) product issued by the NWS Weather Forecast
Office (WFO) in Brownsville, TX (BRO) will include three
additional locations.

TABLE 1.  New WFO BRO PFM locations in Texas:

STATION NAME     STATION ID     COUNTY        STATE
------------     ----------     --------      -----
Edinburg         EBG            Hidalgo       TX
Hebbronville     HBV            Jim Hogg      TX
Falfurrias       BKS            Brooks        TX

Also effective Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 100 pm CDT, 1800 UTC,
the Coded Cities Forecast (CCF) product issued by NWS WFO BRO
will include five additional locations.

TABLE 2.  New WFO BRO CCF locations in Texas:

STATION NAME     STATION ID     COUNTY        STATE
------------     ----------     --------      -----
Harlingen        HRL            Cameron       TX
Bayview          PIL            Cameron       TX
Edinburg         EBG            Hidalgo       TX
Hebbronville     HBV            Jim Hogg      TX
Falfurrias       BKS            Brooks        TX

These additional locations will be included in the following
products at least twice a day.

PRODUCT NAME                WMO HEADING     AWIPS ID
Point Forecast Matrix       FOUS54 KBRO     PFMBRO
Coded Cities Forecast       FPUS54 KBRO     CCFBRO

Examples of the PFM and CCF, which include the new locations,
are online at:

     http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bro/?n=pfmccf

For more information, please contact:

Steve Drillette                 Melinda Bailey
Meteorologist-in-Charge         Public/Marine Meteorologist
NWS Brownsville                 NWS Southern Region
Brownsville, TX 78521-5798      Fort Worth, TX 76102
956-504-1432                    817-978-1100 x107
Steve.Drillette@xxxxxxxx        Melinda.Bailey@xxxxxxxx


National Service Change Notices are online at:

   http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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