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Service Change Notice 24-83
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
820 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: New NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) Broadcast
begins from Station WZ2559, Enterprise, Oregon: Effective on or
about October 1, 2024

Effective on or about October 1, 2024, NWR service will begin
from a new transmitter located in Enterprise, Oregon.  Station
WZ2559, operating on a frequency of 162.425 Megahertz and served
by the Pendleton, Oregon Weather Forecast Office (WFO), will
begin a 24-hour broadcast of weather forecasts and weather
warnings to better serve the residents of Wallowa County, the
many residents and visitors to the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland,
the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
and Wallowa Lake in northeastern Oregon.  Because of topography,
these areas previously had limited NWR reception from Station
WXL95, located in Spout Springs.

Emergency Alert System (EAS) participants currently monitoring
other NWR transmitters for weather warnings for Wallowa County
should check if the new Enterprise transmitter provides 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.


CountySAME Location Code
=============================
Wallowa 041063

The NWS partnered with the U.S. Forest Service on this project.
Their assistance in the site selection and installation process
was invaluable.

For more information, please contact:

Katy Branham
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
WFO Pendleton, OR
Email: katy.branham@noaa.gov

National Service Change Notices are online at:

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