FAA Data Outages
Notices & outages ...RESOLVED - FAA DATA OUTAGES...
Good news: a problem affecting FAA and NCO has been resolved. Service should be back to normal.
FAA is the Federal Aviation Administration, which exchanges aviation weather data with NWS and NCO is NWS Central Operations, which runs the computing behind the forecast models.
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 25 mi ESE of Durango, CO — to support flash flood and heavy rainfall forecasting. 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
- 37.1°N, 107.5°W view on map
- Window
- from until
- Reason given
- excessive rainfall ops for portions of New Mexico and Colorado
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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 281538 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 1537Z TUE JUL 28 2026 ...RESOLVED - FAA DATA OUTAGES... NCO has resolved the connection issue with the FAA that caused bidirectional data outages yesterday, July 27th. Testing has completed and no further interruptions are expected. MDS STATUS... GOES-W MDS Sector 1 will be centered over 37.1N/107.5W from 1530Z to 29/0600Z in support of excessive rainfall ops for portions of New Mexico and Colorado. Green/SDM/NCO