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Technical Implementation Notice 11-01

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

719 AM EST Tue Jan 4 2011

 

TO:       National Weather Service Offices (NWS)

          Federal Aviation Administration Customers (FAA)

          Family of Service Subscribers (FOS)

          Other Customers of NWS Aviation Forecasts

 

FROM:     Cyndie Abelman

          Chief, Aviation Services Branch

 

SUBJECT: Implementation of Terminal Aerodrome

          Forecast (TAF) Service for Lancaster Airport

          Effective March 23, 2011.

 

Effective Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at 0000 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), the NWS office at State College, PA, will begin TAF service for Lancaster Airport (KLNS) in Pennsylvania. After that date, routine and updated TAFS will be issued for this airport 24 hours a day.

 

NWS personnel/offices will need to add the following identifier to their communications systems to receive the new TAF.

 

Airport Name                    WMO Heading     AWIPS ID

------------                    ----------      --------

Lancaster                       FTUS41 KCTP      TAFLNS

 

In addition, this new TAF will be added to the existing TAF collectives below, which are transmitted to FAA personnel and other external users.

 

WMO Headings available to the following customers:

 

FTUS80 KWBC   Non-FAA Domestic and Family of Services

FTUS90 KWBC   FAA Weather Message Switching Center and FAA

              Facilities

FTUS52 KWBC   Global Telecommunication System Customers

 

Holders of NWS Procedural Instruction 10-813 (Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts) should make appropriate additions to the appendices.

 

If you have any questions regarding the TAF addition, please contact:

 

Bruce Budd, Meteorologist-in-Charge 

National Weather Service

328 Innovation Boulevard, Suite 330

State College , PA 16803

814-231-2400

Bruce.Budd@noaa.gov

                 

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

 

http://weather.gov/os/notif.htm

 

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