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Service Change Notice 24-57
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
1230 PM EDT Tue May 21 2024

To: Subscribers:
 -NOAA Weather Wire Service
 -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
 -Satellite Broadcast Network/NOAAPort
 -NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards Listeners
 EAS Participants
 Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

From: Douglas C. Young
 Chief, NWS Digital and Graphical Information Support
 Branch

Subject: New NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) Broadcast Begins
from
 Station KAE42, Providence Forge, Virginia on June 21, 2024

Effective June 21, 2024, NWR service will begin from a new
transmitter
located in Providence Forge, Virginia. Station KAE42, operating on a
frequency of 162.500 Megaherz and served by the Wakefield, Virginia
Weather Forecast Office, will begin a 24-hr broadcast of weather
forecasts
and weather warnings to better serve the residents of East Central
Virginia, including western portions of the Peninsula and Middle
Peninsula. NWR listeners in this region may wish to tune to station
KAE42
to check if the station provides them with improved reception.
Similarly,
Emergency Alert System (EAS) participants currently monitoring other
NWR
transmitters for weather warnings in this region should check if the
Providence Forge transmitter provides better reception.

Weather forecasts and warnings for the independent cities, counties
and
marine zones listed below will be broadcast on KAE42. In addition,
NWR
listeners using receivers equipped with Specific Area Message
Encoding
(SAME) will want to program in the appropriate SAME location
code(s)to
receive automated notifications for weather warnings.

CountySAME Location Code
=============================
Charles City051036
City of Hopewell051070
City of Richmond051760
City of Williamsburg051830
Hanover 051085
Henrico 051087
James City051095
King and Queen051097
King William051101
New Kent051127
Prince George051149
Surry051181
Marine Zones     SAME Location Code
===========================================  ==================
James River     073637
  from Jamestown to the James River Bridge
York River     073636

For more information, please contact:

Eric Seymour
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
WFO Wakefield, VA
Email: Eric.Seymour@noaa.gov

National Service Change Notices are online at:

https://www.weather.gov/notification/