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Technical Implementation Notice 11-27

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

344 PM EDT Thu Jun 23 2011

 

TO:       National Weather Service (NWS) Offices

          Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Customers

          Family of Services (FOS) Subscribers

          Other Customers of NWS Aviation Forecasts

 

FROM:     Cyndie Abelman

          Chief, Aviation Services Branch

    

SUBJECT:  Implementation of Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF)

          Service for the Mammoth Yosemite, California Airport

          (KMMH) Effective September 8, 2011

              

NOTE:     The following changes have no impact on NOAA Weather

          Wire Service subscribers

 

Effective September 8, 2011 at 1800 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Office in Reno, NV, will begin TAF service for the Mammoth Yosemite Airport (KMMH) in Mammoth, CA.  Routine and updated TAFS will be issued for this airport 24 hours a day.

 

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

                                                               

Airport                  WMO Heading      AWIPS ID

Mammoth Yosemite         FTUS 45 KREV     TAFMMH

 

In addition, the new TAF will be added to the existing TAF collectives below, which are transmitted to Federal Aviation Administration (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:

 

Rhett Milne

Acting Meteorologist In Charge

National Weather Service Office

Reno, NV

775-673-8100

rhett.milne@noaa.gov

 

National NWS Technical Implementation notices are available at:

 

     http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm

 

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