1 balloon reports flagged, 2 satellite sectors moved
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 sent no usable sounding at all. 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.
Satellite moves MDS STATUS...
Each GOES weather satellite has two “mesoscale sectors” — small, movable windows that the satellite photographs roughly every 60 seconds, far more often than its routine full-disk and continental scans. Forecasters aim them at whatever is most important that day. This section announces where they are being pointed and for how long.
GOES-West is pointing mesoscale sector 1 at a point about 160 mi WNW of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. That means this patch of sky gets a fresh satellite image about once a minute instead of every 5 to 10 minutes, so forecasters can watch storms develop almost in real time.
- Centre point
- 23.4°N, 112.4°W view on map
- Window
- from until
GOES-West is pointing mesoscale sector 2 over the central Pacific, about 345 mi SW of Honolulu, HI. That means this patch of sky gets a fresh satellite image about once a minute instead of every 5 to 10 minutes, so forecasters can watch storms develop almost in real time.
- Centre point
- 17.5°N, 161.3°W view on map
- Window
- from until
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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 280307 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 0307Z MON SEP 28 2026 The 00Z GFS began and is running on time with 9 Alaskan...24 Canadian...60 CONUS...13 Mexican...8 Caribbean...and 8 Pacific raobs available for ingest. UPDATED 00Z RAOB RECAP... 70414/SYA - No report for the NAM...in for the GFS MDS STATUS... GOES-W MDS Sector 1 is centered over 23.4N/112.4W from 00Z until 29/00Z to support NHC monitoring of Hurricane Polo. GOES-W MDS Sector 2 is centered over 17.5N/161.3W from 00Z until 29/00Z to support NHC monitoring of Hurricane Nolo. Ready/SDM/NCO