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Service Change Notice 24-58
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
100 PM EDT Wed May 22 2024

To:  Subscribers:
  -NOAA Weather Wire Service
  -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
  -NOAAPort
  Other NWS Partners and Employees

From:  Stephen Bieda, III, Branch Chief
  Severe, Fire, Public, and Winter Weather Services

Subject:  NWS to Decommission the User-Defined Area Forecast (UDAF)
  Service and Webpage, Effective June 27, 2024

Effective on or about June 27, 2024, the User-Defined Area Forecast
(UDAF)
Service and Webpage at:
https://www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/

will redirect to the NWS Geographic Information System (GIS) Viewer:
https://viewer.weather.noaa.gov/general

Information on how to utilize the UDAF functionality on the NWS GIS
Viewer
can be found here:
https://www.weather.gov/udaftraining

On or about July 29, 2024, the UDAF webpage redirect will be removed
from
service and the https://www.nws.noaa.gov/wtf/udaf/area/ URL will no
longer
exist.

This Service Change Notice is a follow-on to the comments received in
Public Information Statement 23-32:
https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2023_24/pns23-
32_udaf_decommission.pdf

The comments received were taken into consideration and the NWS GIS
Viewer
has been improved based upon that feedback. Further requests for
functionality can be made to nws.gisviewer@noaa.gov.  Additional
functionality will be added in the future.

If you have questions, please contact:

Kimberly McMahon
Public Weather Program Manager
National Weather Service
Silver Spring, MD
public.program@noaa.gov



National Service Change Notices are online at:

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