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Technical Implementation Notice 13-12
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1141 AM EDT Fri May 24 2013

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, NWS Aviation Branch

SUBJECT:   Implementation of Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF)
           Service for Double Eagle II Airport (KAEG) in
           Albuquerque, New Mexico effective August 29, 2013

NOTE:      The following changes have no impact on NOAA Weather
           Wire Service subscribers.

Effective Thursday, August 29, 2013, at 1200 Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
will begin TAF service for Double Eagle II Airport (KAEG).

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

Airport                    WMO Heading          AWIPS ID

Double Eagle II            FTUS45 KABQ           TAFAEG

In addition, the new TAF 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 addition, please contact:

     Shawn Bennett, Meteorologist In Charge
     National Weather Service Forecast Office
     Albuquerque, NM  87106

     Phone: 505-243-0702 ext. 222
     Email: shawn.bennett@noaa.gov

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

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

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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
653 AM EDT Fri May 24 2013

TO:      Subscribers:
         -Family of Services
         -NOAA Weather Wire Service
         -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
         -NOAAPORT
         Other NWS Partners, Users, and Employees

FROM:    Chris Strager
         Acting Director, NWS Office of Climate, Water, and
           Weather Services

SUBJECT: Comments Sought by August 23, 2013 on Proposed
         Enhanced Impact-Based Decision Support Services
         For the Emergency Management Community

NWS is soliciting comments by August 23, 2013, on a Service
Description Document (SDD) describing proposed enhanced impact-
based decision support services (IDSS) for the emergency
management community supporting events/incidents impacting safety
of life and property.

The NWS Roadmap 2.0 is focused on building a Weather-Ready Nation
(WRN), which means building community resilience in the face of
increasing vulnerability to extreme weather-dependent impacts. To
this end, NWS is enhancing decision support services, improving
technology to track and forecast storms, and expanding its
dissemination efforts to achieve far-reaching national
preparedness. For information on the NWS Roadmap see:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/weatherreadynation/

To implement our WRN Roadmap, focused IDSS activities are
currently taking place at several offices taking part in NWS WRN
Pilot Projects.  In addition, through ongoing prototype
activities, many other offices across NWS are exploring new ways
of providing decision support services. This SDD describes how
NWS will incorporate best practices from these prototype
activities into our support for the emergency management
community across NWS.

NWS policy requires that NWS seek public comment/review before
implementing new or substantially modified product or services.
To date, we determined products/services to be new or
substantially modified based on product content or method of
delivery.  This framework does not fit well with the paradigm of
IDSS because such services may vary in content and method of
delivery depending on the nature of the particular customer or
event being addressed.

To address NWS enhancements to IDSS, we will be providing a
series of Service Description Documents describing who we plan to
provide our services to and what types of decisions we plan to
support.  The SDD addressed in this notice is for IDSS for the
emergency management community. This SDD, which supports
events/incidents impacting safety of life and property, may be
accessed at:

http://weather.gov/sp/idss_sdd_emc.pdf

Please provide comments on the proposed IDSS enhancements as
described in this document by August 23, 2013 to:

nws.idss.comments@noaa.gov

If you have comments or questions regarding this Public
Information Statement, please contact:

  Wendy Levine
  National Weather Service
  Silver Spring Maryland 20910
  301-713-3380 x 133
  wendy.levine@noaa.gov

National Public Information Statements are online at:

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

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