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Service Change Notice 24-86
National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD
1100 AM EDT Thu Aug 29 2024

To: Subscribers:
 -NOAA Weather Wire Service
 -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
 -NOAAPort
 Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

From: C. Bruce Entwistle, Chief
 Aviation and Space Weather Services Branch

Subject: Implementation of TAF Service for Half Moon Bay Airport
(KHAF) in California: Effective October 22, 2024

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

Effective Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 1800 Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), the NWS office in Monterey, CA, will begin
Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) service for the Half Moon Bay
Airport, CA.  After that date, routine and updated TAFs will be
issued for this airport 24 hours a day.

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

Airport Name   WMO Heading AWIPS ID
--------------------   ----------- --------
Half Moon Bay   FTUS46 KMTR TAFHAF

In addition, the new TAF will be added to the existing TAF
collectives below, which are transmitted to Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) personnel and other external users:

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
FTUS24 KWBC   World Area Forecast Center (WAFC)

For questions regarding this TAF, please contact:

Cindy Palmer
Meteorologist-in-Charge
National Weather Service
Monterey, CA
831-656-1710
cynthia.palmer@noaa.gov

National Service Change Notices are online at:

https://www.weather.gov/notification