3 balloon reports flagged
Notices & outages
An operational notice from the Senior Duty Meteorologist.
Balloon reports UPDATED 00Z 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.
3 stations were flagged: 2 sent no usable sounding at all, 1 reported a numeric status code. 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 | 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 |
| 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 the NAM...in for the 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 the NAM...in for the 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 020250 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 0250Z WED SEP 02 2026 The 00Z GFS began and is running on time with 8 Alaskan...26 Canadian...61 CONUS...14 Mexican...7 Caribbean...and 9 Pacific raobs available for ingest. UPDATED 00Z RAOB RECAP... 70414/SYA - 10159 72215/FFC - No report for the NAM...in for the GFS 72376/FGZ - No report for the NAM...in for the GFS Ready/SDM/NCO