11 balloon reports flagged
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An operational notice from the Senior Duty Meteorologist.
Balloon reports 12Z 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 12Z run.
11 stations were flagged: 3 sent no usable sounding at all, 6 reported a numeric status code, 2 were 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. | No report |
| FFC 72215 | Peachtree City, GA | 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 |
| FGZ 72376 | Flagstaff, AZ | 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 |
| 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 |
| ANN 70398 | Annette Island, AK | Ground equipment failure — the station’s tracking/receiving equipment was down, so no usable sounding was produced. | 10142 |
| KEY 72201 | Key West/Intl, FL | The station reported status code 10145. 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 10145 | 10145 |
| 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 |
| NKX 72293 | San Diego/Miramar, NAS, CA | Ground equipment failure — the station’s tracking/receiving equipment was down, so no usable sounding was produced. | 10142 |
| MZL 76654 | Manzanillo, Col · Mexico | Ground equipment failure — the station’s tracking/receiving equipment was down, so no usable sounding was produced. | 10142 |
| BDA 78016 | L F Wade Intl · Bermuda | 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. | Missing TTBB |
| PNI 91348 | Ponape/Caroline Is · Micronesia | The station reported, but part of the sounding transmission was missing — specifically TTAA, the mandatory-levels section that carries the standard pressure levels up to 100 mb. The GFS run still got a usable report from this station. | Missing TTAA/TTBB for NAM.. full report in for GFS |
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Exactly as NWS transmitted it. Everything above is our plain-English reading of this text — if the two ever disagree, this is the authoritative version.
000 NOUS42 KWNO 011504 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 1503Z SUN NOV 01 2026 The 12Z GFS has started and is running on time. 12Z UPDATED RAOB RECAP... 70414/SYA - No report 72215/FFC - No report for NAM.. in for GFS 72376/FGZ - No report for NAM.. in for GFS 70308/SNP - 10159 70398/ANN - 10142 72201/KEY - 10145 72274/TWC - 10159 72293/NKX - 10142 76654/MZL - 10142 78016/BDA - Missing TTBB 91348/PNI - Missing TTAA/TTBB for NAM.. full report in for GFS Handel/SDM/NCO