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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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