[EAS] County Name Change and FIPS Code Change

[Tim Schott - NWS Federal]

From:     NWS Headquarters
The name of Shannon County, SD changed to Oglala Lakota County, SD effective May 1, 2015.  Because of the extensive coordination and planning required by the weather enterprise and the emergency management community to successfully complete this change, the official data of change for NWS products and services for the county name change and the FIPS code change will be October 1,2015 at 10 am MDT.  This change will impact the dissemination of NWS warnings requested for broadcast via the Emergency Alert System. This change has been extensively coordinated with the State EAS Chair, State Emergency Communications Committee, local broadcasters, emergency managers and affected EAS encoder/decoder manufacturers.
The county name will change from Shannon to Oglala Lakota.  The existing county boundaries will not change.
The FIPS code changes from 46113 to a 46102. FIPS codes are assigned and maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Universal Geographic Code by County (UGC-C) will change from SDC113 to SDC102.
The NWS public forecast zone name will change from Shannon to Oglala Lakota. 
The NWS will discontinue using the current FIPS code for Shannon County (46113) and begin using the new FIPS code (46102) for Oglala Lakota County on October 1, 2015.
In the event October 1, 2015, is declared a Critical Weather Day (CWD) or significant weather is occurring, or forecast to occur,in or near Oglala Lakota County, SD, implementation of this NWS change will occur at 10 am MDT on the next weekday not declared a CWD  and when no significant weather is occurring in or near Oglala Lakota County, SD.
For more information, please contact:
 Susan Sanders
 Warning Coordination Meteorologist
 WFO Rapid City, SD
 Susan.Sanders at noaa.gov
 605-341-9271 X726
 Timothy Schott
 Digital and Graphical Information Support Branch
 NWS Headquarters
 Silver Spring, MD
 Timothy.Schott at noaa.gov
 301-427-9336
National Service Change Notices are online at:
  http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm