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Technical
Implementation Notice 11-50 Corrected
National
Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
315
PM EST Tue Nov 22 2011
TO: National Weather Service Offices (NWS)
Federal Aviation Administration
Customers (FAA)
Family of Services Subscribers (FOS)
Other Customers of NWS Aviation
Forecasts
FROM: Cyndie Ableman
Chief, Aviation Services Branch
SUBJECT: Corrected: Implementation of Terminal Aerodrome
Forecast (TAF) Service for Hawkins Field (KHKS) in
Jackson, MS, Effective February 28, 2012
NOTE: The following changes have no impact on NOAA Weather Wire Service subscribers.
Corrected to change implementation date to Tuesday, February
28, 2012, at 1200 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). At that time, the NWS office at Jackson, MS will begin TAF
service for Hawkins Field in Mississippi. After that time, routine and updated TAFs will be issued for this
airport 24 hours a day.
NWS
offices will need to add the following identifier to their communications
systems to receive the new TAF:
Airport
Name WMO Heading AWIPS
ID
------------ ----------- --------
Hawkins
Field FTUS44 KHKS TAFHKS
In
addition, this new TAF will be added to the existing TAF collectives below,
which are transmitted to FAA personnel and other
external users.
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.
For
questions regarding the TAF addition, please contact:
Mr. Alan
Gerard
Meteorologist
in Charge
NWS
Jackson, MS
Flowood, MS 39232
601-936-2189
Brian
Koeneke, Aviation Program Manager
NWS
Jackson, MS
Flowood, MS 39232
601-936-2189
National
Technical Implementation Notices are online at:
http://weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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