4 balloon reports flagged
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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.
4 stations were flagged: 3 sent no usable sounding at all, 2 reported a numeric status code. 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.
| Station | Where | What happened | As printed |
|---|---|---|---|
| YAK 70361 | Yakutat, AK | No weather balloon data from this station reached the NAM run. The GFS run did get a report from it. | No report for the NAM...in for the GFS |
| SLE 72694 | Salem/Mcnary, OR | No weather balloon data from this station reached the NAM run. The GFS run did get a report from it. | No report for the NAM...in for the GFS |
| BET 70219 | Bethel/Bethel Airport, AK | The station reported status code 10159. NWS does not publish a public legend for these codes, so we will not guess at what it means — it signals some problem with the launch or the data. The GFS run still got a usable report from this station. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 for the NAM...full report in for the GFS |
| GCM 78384 | Owen Roberts Airport Grand Cay · Cayman Islands | Ground equipment failure — the station’s tracking/receiving equipment was down, so no usable sounding was produced. | No report for the NAM...10142 for the GFS |
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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 300633 ADMSDM SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD 0632Z WED SEP 30 2026 Dissemination of the 00Z GFS model has completed. UPDATED 00Z RAOB RECAP... 70361/YAK - No report for the NAM...in for the GFS 72694/SLE - No report for the NAM...in for the GFS 70219/BET - 10159 for the NAM...full report in for the GFS 78384/GCM - No report for the NAM...10142 for the GFS Ready/SDM/NCO