[nws-changes] 20121018L WMO headers-MND Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20121018L WMO headers-MND Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:54:39 -0600

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Service Change Notice 12-34
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
924 AM EDT Fri Oct 19 2012

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

         Chief, Marine and Coastal Weather Services Branch

Subject: New WMO Header and MND Header block for Yakutat Bay
         Coastal Waters Forecast Product Effective
         January 9, 2013

Effective Wednesday, January 9, 2013, at 4 pm Alaska
Standard Time (AKST), 8 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST),
0100 Thursday, January 10, 2013, Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), the NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Juneau, AK (AJK)
will change the WMO header for  the Coastal Waters Forecast (CWF)
for Yakutat Bay (see Tables 1 and 2 below). This change is
required to upgrade the Juneau WFO weather forecasting computer
system.

In addition, on January 9 at the same time, the Mass News
Disseminator (MND) header block will change to reflect WFO Juneau
is the issuing office for this product (see Tables 3 and 4
below).


Table 1: Current WMO/AWIPS header for Coastal Waters Forecast for
Yakutat Bay

Product Name                            WMO/AWIPS Header
------------                            ----------------
Coastal Waters Forecast                 FZAK57 PAYA/CWFYAK
 for Yakutat Bay

Table 2: New WMO/AWIPS header for Coastal Waters Forecast for
Yakutat Bay effective January 9, 2013

Product Name                            WMO/AWIPS Header
------------                            ----------------
Coastal Waters Forecast                 FZAK53 PAJK/CWFYAK
 for Yakutat Bay

Customers currently receiving the forecast product for
Yakutat Bay will need to change to the WMO/AWIPS header shown in
Table 2 to continue receiving this product.

Table 3:  Current MND header block for CWF for Yakutat Bay

Marine Forecast for Yakutat Bay
National Weather Service Yakutat AK
Date/Time Group

Table 4:  New MND header block for CWF for Yakutat Bay effective
January 9, 2013

Marine Forecast for Yakutat Bay
National Weather Service Juneau AK
Date/Time Group

For more information, please contact:

Meteorologist in Charge              Marine Program Manager
NWS Juneau                           NWS Alaska Region HQ
Juneau, AK 99801                     Anchorage, AK 99513
907-790-6805                         907-271-3507
tom.ainsworth@xxxxxxxx               louise.fode@xxxxxxxx


National Service Change Notices are online at:

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