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Areas of Responsibility
The Facility has several Areas of Responsibility (AORs)
which correspond to its different customers and their unique forecast requirements.
The Facility provides forecasts to CNET for “Sub-Region CHARLIE”, which
encompasses Alabama, Mississippi, and parts of Florida and coastal waters
to 50 nm. CNATRA Aviation Weather Warnings (CaWWs) are issued for the area
out to a radius of 100 nm from LNPA. The local flying area covers an area
out to a radius of 350 nm from KNPA.
C-1: Encompasses both land and water areas of coastal
Mississippi. This area is bounded on the east by the Alabama state
line, on the north by 31.00 degrees North latitude, on the west by the
Louisiana state line, and on the south by a line paralleling the coastline
50 nm seaward into the Gulf of Mexico.
C-2: Encompasses both land and water areas of coastal
Alabama and the extreme western portion of Northwest Florida.
The area is bounded on the east by the Okaloosa-Walton County Florida line,
to the north by the Florida-Alabama state line, and the by the northern
boundaries of Baldwin and Mobile counties in Alabama. On the west
by the Mississippi state line and on the south by a line paralleling the
coastline 50 nm into the Gulf of Mexico.
C-3: Encompasses both land and water areas of the
central portion of Northwest Florida. This area is bounded on the
east by the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, on the north by the
Florida-Alabama state line, on the west by the Walton-Okaloosa County,
Florida line and on the south by a line paralleling the coastline 50 nm
seaward into the Gulf of Mexico.
C-4: Encompasses the inland portions of the states
of Alabama and Mississippi. This area is bounded on the east by the
Alabama-Georgia state line, on the north by the Tennessee state line, on
the west by the state line between Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana,
and on the south by the northern boundaries of Warning Areas C-1, C-2 and
C-3.
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