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Service Change Notice 24-84
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
830 AM EDT Tue Aug 27 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: Two New NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR)
Transmitters in the Texas Panhandle become operational:
Effective on or about October 1, 2024

Effective on or about October 1, 2024, NWR service will begin
from a new transmitter, Station WWQ50, located near Dalhart,
Texas and operating on a frequency of 162.425 Megahertz.  In
addition, a second, new transmitter, station WWQ51, located in
Stratford, Texas and operating on a frequency of 162.525
Megahertz, will begin service.Both transmitters are operated
by the Amarillo, Texas Weather Forecast Office (WFO).  The
transmitters will begin 24-hour broadcasts of weather forecasts
and weather warnings to better serve the residents of the
northwest Texas Panhandle, the Oklahoma Panhandle and
northeastern New Mexico.  Some of these areas previously had
limited to no NWR reception.

Emergency Alert System (EAS) participants currently monitoring
other NWR transmitters for weather warnings should check to
determine if the new transmitters provide better reception.

NWR listeners using receivers equipped with Specific Area
Message Encoding (SAME) will want to program in the appropriate
SAME location code to receive automated notifications for
weather warnings.

Station WWQ50, Dalhart, Texas, 162.425 Megaherz:

CountySAME Location Code
=============================
Union, New Mexico035059
Cimarron, Oklahoma040025
Dallam, Texas048111
Hartley, Texas048205

Station WWQ51, Stratford, Texas, 162.525 Megaherz:

CountySAME Location Code
=============================
Cimarron, Oklahoma040025
Texas, Oklahoma 048139
Dallam, Texas048109
Hansford, Texas 048195
Hartley, Texas048205
Moore, Texas048341
Sherman, Texas048421

The NWS partnered with the Panhandle Regional Planning
Commission, Dallam County and Sherman County officials on this
project.  Their assistance in the site selection and
installation process was invaluable.

For more information, please contact:

Joanne Cullin
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
WFO Amarillo, TX
Email: joanne.cullin@noaa.gov

National Service Change Notices are online at:

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