2 balloon reports flagged
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This summary was written by a small AI model because our rule-based reader could not confidently interpret the wording. The original text is below.
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.
2 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 | Any reason not listed above — other or unspecified reason. “Unavailable” may appear as free text, but is not the formal definition. | No report for the NAM...10159 for GFS |
| SLC 72572 | Salt Lake City/Intl Ut, UT | 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 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 220351 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 0351Z SAT AUG 22 2026 The 00Z GFS began and is running on time. UPDATED 00Z RAOB RECAP... 70414/SYA - No report for the NAM...10159 for GFS 72572/SLC - No report for the NAM...in for GFS Ready/SDM/NCO