1 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.
1 station was flagged: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MZL 76654 | Manzanillo, Col · Mexico | 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 |
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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 270308 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 0308Z SUN SEP 27 2026 The 00Z GFS began and is running on time with 9 Alaskan...25 Canadian...60 CONUS...12 Mexican...9 Caribbean...and 9 Pacific raobs available for ingest. UPDATED 00Z RAOB RECAP... 76654/MZL - 10159 Ready/SDM/NCO