Routine ADM

Routine status message

Issued 02 Aug 2026 12:13Z (1212Z SUN AUG 02 2026) · by Kempisty, on duty as SDM

Critical Weather Day ...CRITICAL WEATHER DAY ENDED...

A “Critical Weather Day” is an internal NWS operations posture. When one is declared, NWS postpones scheduled software, hardware and network changes at the affected offices so that nothing is disturbed while forecasters are working high-impact weather. Emergency changes still get made, but they need senior sign-off. It is a signal about how NWS is protecting its own systems — it is not a forecast or a warning, and it does not tell you anything about conditions where you live.

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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 021213
ADMSDM

SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD
1212Z SUN AUG 02 2026

...CRITICAL WEATHER DAY ENDED...

The Critical Weather Day for fire wx ops ended as scheduled
at 02/1200Z.


Kempisty/SDM/NCO