Routine status message

Routine ADM

Issued 02 Sep 2026 00:21Z (0020Z WED SEP 02 2026) · by Ready, on duty as SDM

Critical Weather Day ...CRITICAL WEATHER DAY ENDED...

A “Critical Weather Day” is an internal NWS operations posture. When one is declared, NWS postpones scheduled software, hardware and network changes at the affected offices so that nothing is disturbed while forecasters are working high-impact weather. Emergency changes still get made, but they need senior sign-off. It is a signal about how NWS is protecting its own systems — it is not a forecast or a warning, and it does not tell you anything about conditions where you live.

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NOUS42 KWNO 020021
ADMSDM

SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD
0020Z WED SEP 02 2026


...CRITICAL WEATHER DAY ENDED...
The Critical Weather Day for tropical cyclone ops across portions
of the TX/LA coasts ended at 00Z Wed Sep 02 2026 as scheduled.



Ready/SDM/NCO