Radar.weather.gov Outage

Alert ADA

Issued 18 Sep 2026 08:37Z (0836Z FRI SEP 18 2026) · by Renkevens, on duty as SDM

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

NWS is reporting a problem affecting weather.gov, NCO and radar. Some data may be missing, delayed or slow until it is fixed.

The message says NWS is actively working the issue, so this is a live situation rather than a closed one.

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.

For most people this is invisible — forecasts keep coming. It matters most to anyone pulling NWS data directly, and to forecasters who lean on the affected feed.

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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 180837
ADASDM

SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ALERT ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD
0836Z FRI SEP 18 2026

...RADAR.WEATHER.GOV OUTAGE...

NCO teams are aware of issues with radar data populating
radar.weather.gov and are working to restore services.


Renkevens/SDM/NCO