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Technical Implementation Notice 13-48, Amended
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
943 AM EST Mon Dec 9 2013

TO:       National Weather Service Offices (NWS)
          Federal Aviation Administration Customers (FAA)
          Family of Service Subscribers (FOS)
          Other Customers of NWS Aviation Forecasts

FROM:     Cyndie Abelman
          Chief, Aviation Services Branch

SUBJECT:  Amended: Implementation of Terminal Aerodrome
          Forecast (TAF) Service for Manitowoc County Airport
          (MTW) in Manitowoc, WI, Effective: February 25, 2014

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

Corrected to change effective time to 1800 Universal
Coordinated Time (UTC) on the same day, February 25, 2014.

Effective Tuesday, February 25, 2014, at 0000 Universal
Coordinated Time (UTC), the NWS office at Green Bay, WI, will
begin TAF service for a new site. After that date, routine and
updated TAFs will be issued for these airports 24 hours a day.

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

Airport Name                             WMO Heading    AWIPS ID
------------                             ----------     --------
Manitowoc County Airport, Manitowoc, WI     MTW          FTUS43

In addition, the 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 these TAFs, please contact:

Gary Austin, Meteorologist in Charge
National Weather Service
Green Bay, WI 54313
920-494-2363
gary.austin@noaa.gov

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

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

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