[nws-changes] 20111110: TAF-St George-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20111110: TAF-St George-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:58:03 -0700

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Technical Implementation Notice 11-48
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
945 AM EST Thu Nov 10 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:  Change of Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) Service
          for the St. George, Utah Airport (KSGU):
          Effective December 15, 2011

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

Effective December 15, 2011, at 1900 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), the NWS Office in Salt Lake City, UT,will begin
disseminating the St. George, Utah Airport TAF under the old
airport identifier (KSGU).  KDXZ was a temporary identifier for
the new airport in St. George and the FAA and airport have
requested that the old identifier (KSGU) be re-established.
Routine and updated TAFS issuance will continue to be
disseminated 24 hours a day.

NWS personnel will need to make the following change to their
communications systems to receive the new TAF:

Airport             WMO Heading         AWIPS ID
St. George          FTUS45 KSLC         TAFSGU

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 change to the appendices.

If you have questions regarding the TAF change, contact:

Larry Dunn
Meteorologist In Charge
National Weather Service Office
2242 W North Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84116

801-524-4378
larry.dunn@xxxxxxxx

National Technical Implementation notices are available at:

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

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