Public Information Statement
Issued by NWS National HQ
Issued by NWS National HQ
364 NOUS41 KWBC 221700 PNSWSH 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/