Ndbc Buoy/Cman/Tao Data Update
Notices & outages
An operational notice from the Senior Duty Meteorologist.
Balloon reports 00Z UPDATED RAOB RECAP...
Twice a day, NWS and partner agencies release weather balloons that carry a radiosonde — a small instrument package that radios back temperature, humidity, pressure and wind as it climbs. Those soundings are one of the main ingredients in a forecast model’s starting conditions. This section is the roll call of stations that had a problem for the 00Z run.
9 stations were flagged: 2 sent no usable sounding at all, 7 reported a numeric status code, 1 was missing part of the transmission. A handful of gaps is normal and is not by itself a sign of a forecast problem — the models are built to work with an incomplete picture.
| Station | Where | What happened | As printed |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYA 70414 | Shemya AFB, AK | No weather balloon data from this station reached the model for this cycle — either no launch happened or the data did not arrive in time. unrecognised status code 10145 | No report for NAM.. 10145 for GFS |
| OTX 72786 | Spokane, WA | No weather balloon data from this station reached the NAM run. The GFS run did get a report from it. | No report for NAM.. in for GFS |
| OTZ 70133 | Kotzebue, Ralph Wien, AK | The station reported status code 10159. NWS does not publish a public legend for these codes, so we will not guess at what it means — it signals some problem with the launch or the data. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| BET 70219 | Bethel/Bethel Airport, AK | The station reported status code 10159. NWS does not publish a public legend for these codes, so we will not guess at what it means — it signals some problem with the launch or the data. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| SNP 70308 | St. Paul Islands, AK | The station reported status code 10159. NWS does not publish a public legend for these codes, so we will not guess at what it means — it signals some problem with the launch or the data. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| AKN 70326 | King Salmon, AK | The station reported status code 10159. NWS does not publish a public legend for these codes, so we will not guess at what it means — it signals some problem with the launch or the data. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| TWC 72274 | Tucson, AZ | The station reported status code 10159. NWS does not publish a public legend for these codes, so we will not guess at what it means — it signals some problem with the launch or the data. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| GCM 78384 | Owen Roberts Airport Grand Cay · Cayman Islands | Ground equipment failure — the station’s tracking/receiving equipment was down, so no usable sounding was produced. | 10142 |
| ADQ 70350 | Kodiak, AK | The station reported, but part of the sounding transmission was missing — specifically TTBB, the "significant levels" section that carries the extra detail between the standard pressure levels. The GFS run still got a usable report from this station. | Missing TTBB for NAM.. full report in for GFS |
Notices & outages ...NDBC BUOY/CMAN/TAO DATA UPDATE...
An operational notice about NCO and BUFR.
NCO is NWS Central Operations, which runs the computing behind the forecast models and BUFR is a binary format used to move observation data.
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000 NOUS42 KWNO 030313 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 0311Z TUE NOV 03 2026 The 00Z GFS has started and is running on time. 00Z UPDATED RAOB RECAP... 70414/SYA - No report for NAM.. 10145 for GFS 72786/OTX - No report for NAM.. in for GFS 70133/OTZ - 10159 70219/BET - 10159 70308/SNP - 10159 70326/AKN - 10159 72274/TWC - 10159 78384/GCM - 10142 70350/ADQ - Missing TTBB for NAM.. full report in for GFS ...NDBC BUOY/CMAN/TAO DATA UPDATE... Real-Time Data Monitor showed most buoy data has recovered to near normal counts over the past few hours, except for moored buoy bufr data which is still around 30% of normal. See details at https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/status/data/realtime/ . Handel/SDM/NCO