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-------- Original Message -------- 956 NOUS41 KWBC 291523 PNSWSH Service Change Notice 13-9 National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC 1023 AM EST Tue Jan 29 2013 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: Changes in Fire Weather Forecast Zone Names for Utah Effective April 4, 2013 Effective Thursday, April 4, 2013, at 600 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) in Salt Lake City, Utah (SLC), and Grand Junction, Colorado (GJT), will rename four fire weather forecast zones. Table 1: Changed WFO SLC, UT, Fire Weather Forecast Zone Names Zone Code Old Zone Name New Zone Name --------- ------------- ------------- UTZ484 Western Book Cliffs Tavaputs Plateau UTZ488 Manti-La Sal National Forest Manti National Forest UTZ494 Canyonlands Henry Mountains Table 2: Changed WFO GJT, CO, Fire Weather Forecast Zone Name in UT: Zone Code Old Zone Name New Zone Name --------- ------------- ------------- UTZ487 Eastern Book Cliffs Book Cliffs These are fire weather forecast zone name changes only. No change is being made to fire weather forecast zone geographic extents or zone numbers. WFO SLC has fire weather forecast responsibility for approximately the western two-thirds of Utah, while WFO SLC and WFO GJT share fire weather forecast responsibility for the eastern one-third of Utah. Uintah Basin, Moab and Richfield Interagency Fire Centers (IFC) requested these name changes. These fire weather product users felt that a different naming convention would better serve their needs. These changes have also been coordinated with the Eastern Great Basin Coordination Center, Utah Interagency Fire Centers, and other fire weather partners and users in Utah. An updated fire weather zone map shapefile containing the new zones is online at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm Partners and users of WFO SLC and WFO GJT fire weather products will need to update their system(s) to continue receiving correct fire weather forecasts/products. For more information, please contact: Larry Dunn Ben Moyer Meteorologist-in-Charge Meteorologist-in-Charge larry.dunn@xxxxxxxx benjamin.moyer@xxxxxxxx Salt Lake City, UT 84116 NWS Grand Junction, CO 801-524-4378 970-243-7007 x 642National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm $$
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