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Service Change Notice 10-53

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

1250 PM EST Tue Dec 21 2010

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:  New Fire and Public Forecast Zones and Boundary

          Changes for Coastal Portions of Northeast South

          Carolina and Southeast North Carolina , Effective

          Tuesday May 3, 2011

Effective Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), 2 pm EDT, the NWS Weather Forecast Office in Wilmington , NC , will split five of its fire and public forecast zones in coastal portions of northeast South Carolina and southeast North Carolina in two. Current Pender (NCZ097), New Hanover (NCZ101), Brunswick (NCZ100), Horry (SCZ034) and Georgetown (SCZ046) zones will be divided into coastal and inland zones. The 10 new zones will be assigned new zone names and numbers as shown in Table 1.

These changes will allow long fused watches, warnings, advisories and forecasts for these counties to be more area specific.

The fire and public zone changes require partners and users to take appropriate action to receive the new zone products using the Universal Generic Code (UGC) zone code format (Z) listed in Table 1.

TABLE 1.  New Fire and Public Zone Configuration Identifiers

NEW FIRE/PUBLIC          UGC (Z)   EXISTING FIRE/PUBLIC  UGC (Z)

 ZONE NAME                          ZONE Name

---------------          ------    --------------------  ------

INLAND PENDER            NCZ105    PENDER                NCZ097

COASTAL PENDER           NCZ106    PENDER                NCZ097

INLAND NEW HANOVER        NCZ107    NEW HANOVER            NCZ101

COASTAL NEW HANOVER       NCZ108    NEW HANOVER            NCZ101

INLAND BRUNSWICK          NCZ109    BRUNSWICK              NCZ100

COASTAL BRUNSWICK         NCZ110    BRUNSWICK              NCZ100

INLAND HORRY             SCZ053    HORRY                 SCZ034

COASTAL HORRY            SCZ054    HORRY                 SCZ034

INLAND GEORGETOWN         SCZ055    GEORGETOWN             SCZ046

COASTAL GEORGETOWN        SCZ056    GEORGETOWN             SCZ046

A map of the old zones and new zone changes can be found at:

http://www.weather.gov/os/notification/images/zones.png  

An updated public zone shapefile is online at:

http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm

An updated fire zone shapefile is online at:

http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm

Products affected by this change are listed in Table 2.

TABLE 2. Affected Fire, Public, Hydrologic, Tropical, Marine and Tsunami Products:

 PRODUCT NAME                      AWIPS ID     WMO HEADER

 ------------                      ---------    -----------

 PUBLIC ZONE FORECAST              ZFPILM       FPUS52 KILM

 POINT FORECAST MATRICES           PFMILM       FOUS52 KILM

 FIRE WEATHER FORECAST             FWFILM       FNUS52 KILM

 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK         HWOILM       FLUS42 KILM

 FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCH           FFAILM       WGUS62 KILM

 NON-PRECIP ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING    NPWILM       WWUS72 KILM

 WINTER STORM ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING  WSWILM       WWUS42 KILM

  WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION         WCNILM       WWUS62 KILM

 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT         SPSILM       WWUS82 KILM

 PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT      PNSILM       NOUS42 KILM

 SHORT-TERM FORECAST               NOWILM       FPUS72 KILM

 RED FLAG WARNING                  RFWILM       WWUS82 KILM

 AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION          AFDILM       FXUS62 KILM

 AREA FORECAST MATRICES            AFMILM       FOUS52 KILM

 AIR QUALITY ALERT                 AQAILM       AEUS72 KILM

 AIR QUALITY FORECAST              AQIILM       AEUS72 KILM

 SURF ZONE FORECAST                SRFILM       FZUS52 KILM

 COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE            CFWILM       WHUS42 KILM

 HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT         HLSILM       WTUS82 KILM

 TIDAL INFORMATION                 TIDILM       SOUS42 KILM

 TROPICAL CYCLONE VTEC PRODUCT     TCVAT(1-5)   WTNT(81-85) KNHC

 TSUNAMI ADVSY/WATCH/WARNING       TSUAT1       WEXX20 PAAQ

If you have any questions, please contact:

    Michael Caropolo, Meteorologist-in-Charge

    Steven Pfaff, Warning Coordination Meteorologist

    National Weather Service

    Wilmington , NC 28405

    910-762-0524

    Michael.Caropolo@noaa.gov

National Service Change Notices are online at:

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

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