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Technical Implementation Notice 10-63 Corrected

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

1110 AM EST Wed Jan 5 2010

 

TO:       NWS Offices

          FAA Customers

          Family of Services Subscribers

          Other Customers of NWS Aviation Forecasts

 

FROM:     Cyndie Abelman

          Chief, Aviation Services Branch

    

SUBJECT:  Corrected: Change of Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF)

          service for the replacement St. George , UT , Airport

          (KDXZ) effective January 12, 2011

              

NOTE:     The following changes have no impact on NOAA Weather

          Wire Service subscribers

 

Corrected station identifier in subject line to KDXZ.

 

Effective January 12, 2011, at 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Office in Salt Lake City, UT, will begin disseminating the St. George, UT, Airport TAF under a new identifier: KDXZ. Routine and updated TAFS will be issued for the replacement airport, 24 hours a day.

 

The effective date of this change is sooner than NWS policy (NWS instruction 10-1805).  The reduction of normal lead time for this change occurred after coordination with local customers and the FAA. 

 

NWS personnel will need to add the following identifier to their communications systems to receive the new TAF:

                                                               

Airport             WMO Heading           AWIPS ID

St. George          FTUS 45 KSLC          TAFDXZ

 

In addition the TAF change will be added to the existing TAF collectives below which are transmitted to FAA personnel and other external customers.

 

   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 questions regarding the TAF change, contact:

 

Larry Dunn

Meteorologist In Charge

National Weather Service Office

Salt Lake City, UT 84116

801-524-4378

larry.dunn@noaa.gov

 

National Technical Implementation notices are online at:

 

  http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

 

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