[nws-changes] 20131121: Hydro to WFO-LA-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20131121: Hydro to WFO-LA-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:04:08 -0700

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Service Change Notice 13-73
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
740 AM EST Thu Nov 21 2013

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

FROM:     Mary Mullusky
          Acting Chief, Hydrologic Services Division

SUBJECT:  Transfer of Hydrologic Services for the Western
          Atchafalaya River Basin to Weather Forecast Office
          Lake Charles, LA, Effective February 5, 2014

Effective Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at 12:00 PM Central
Standard Time (CST), 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC),
hydrologic service responsibility for river forecast locations
in St. Mary, St. Martin, Iberia, St. Landry, and Avoyelles
Parishes will be transferred to the Weather Forecast Office in
Lake Charles, LA (WFO LCH) from the WFO in Slidell, LA (WFO
LIX). This transfer will include the river forecast point
locations given in Table 1 below. These changes will align
Hydrologic Service Areas and Parish Warning Areas to enable more
efficient service.

Because of this transfer, partners and other users must take
appropriate action to receive the products listed in Table 2 for
the Atchafalaya River forecast points in St. Mary, St. Martin,
Iberia, St. Landry, and Avoyelles Parishes using the WFO LCH
identifier.

Updated hydrologic service area shapefiles are online at:

  http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/hydro/html/hsa.htm

Table 1. River forecast points transferring to WFO Lake Charles.

FORECAST POINT                        PARISH         IDENTIFIER
---------------------------------------------------------------
Atchafalaya River at Simmesport       Avoyelles      SMML1
Atchafalaya River at Melville         St. Landry     MLVL1
Atchafalaya River at Krotz Springs    St. Landry     KRZL1
Atchafalaya River above Butte La Rose St. Martin     BLRL1
Atchafalaya River at Grand Lake       St. Mary       GNDL1
Atchafalaya River at Morgan City      St. Mary       MCGL1

Table 2. Products affected by this change for the Atchafalaya
River in Louisiana.  Headers referred to as new are existing
headers that will be used after the transfer.

PRODUCT WMO HEADING AWIPS ID
----------------------------------------------------------------
Flood Watch       /NEW/ WGUS64 KLCH   /NEW/ FFALCH
                * /OLD/ WGUS64 KLIX     * /OLD/ FFALIX

Flood Warning     /NEW/ WGUS44 KLCH       /NEW/ FLWLCH
                * /OLD/ WGUS44 KLIX     * /OLD/ FLWLIX

Flood Statement   /NEW/ WGUS84 KLCH       /NEW/ FLSLCH
                * /OLD/ WGUS84 KLIX     * /OLD/ FLSLIX

Daily River and   /NEW/ FGUS54 KLCH       /NEW/ RVDLCH
Lake Summary    * /OLD/ FGUS54 KLIX     * /OLD/ RVDLIX

Hydrologic        /NEW/ FGUS74 KLCH       /NEW/ ESFLCH
Outlook         * /OLD/ FGUS74 KLIX     * /OLD/ ESFLIX

* These old products will continue to exist, but will cover
locations and areas other than those in the western Atchafalaya
River basin locations of Louisiana.

If you have any questions, please contact:

  Kenneth Graham
  Meteorologist-in-Charge
  NWS New Orleans/Baton Rouge, LA
  Slidell, LA  70460-6243
  (985) 649-0429 or (504) 522-7330
  kenneth.graham@xxxxxxxx

  Andrew Patrick
  Meteorologist-in-Charge
  NWS Lake Charles, LA
  Lake Charles, LA  70607-0669
  (337) 477-5285
  andy.patrick@xxxxxxxx

National Service Change Notices are online at:

  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm

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