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Planned IRIS/Inws Failover
Notices & outages ...PLANNED IRIS/INWS FAILOVER...
This is a heads-up about planned work on IRIS. Brief interruptions are expected during the work window rather than something having gone wrong.
IRIS is an NCO data handling system.
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.
000 NOUS42 KWNO 051243 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 1243Z MON OCT 05 2026 ...PLANNED IRIS/INWS FAILOVER... A site failover of the IRIS/iNWS application from College Park to Boulder will occur today 05 Oct at 1500 UTC. During this failover the IRIS web site will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes. Watches and warnings delivered via iNWS texts and emails will be delayed by approximately 5 minutes. Renkevens/SDM/NCO