Radar.weather.gov Data Outage Update

Alert ADA

Issued 18 Sep 2026 19:11Z (1910Z FRI SEP 18 2026) · by Churchill, on duty as SDM

Notices & outages ...RADAR.WEATHER.GOV DATA OUTAGE UPDATE...

Good news: a problem affecting weather.gov, NCO and radar has been resolved. Service should be back to normal.

Weather.gov is the public NWS website, NCO is NWS Central Operations, which runs the computing behind the forecast models and radar is the NEXRAD weather radar network.

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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.

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NOUS42 KWNO 181911
ADASDM

SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ALERT ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD
1910Z FRI SEP 18 2026

...RADAR.WEATHER.GOV DATA OUTAGE UPDATE...

Ridge2 failover from CP to BLDR was completed at 1854Z.
Standard/lite Radar functionality was restored, but NCO support
teams continue to investigate single-site and national radar
product dropouts on the high-res radar.weather.gov interface.


Churchill/SDM/NCO