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18 balloon reports flagged
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An operational notice from the Senior Duty Meteorologist.
Balloon reports 00Z UPDATED 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.
18 stations were flagged: 7 sent no usable sounding at all, 7 reported a numeric status code, 2 were missing part of the transmission, 2 had bad data removed by quality control. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAX 72206 | Jacksonville/Intl, FL | No weather balloon data from this station reached the model for this cycle — either no launch happened or the data did not arrive in time. | No report |
| MAF 72265 | Midland/Midland Reg. Airterm, TX | No weather balloon data from this station reached the model for this cycle — either no launch happened or the data did not arrive in time. | No report |
| ABQ 72365 | Albuquerque/Intl, NM | No weather balloon data from this station reached the model for this cycle — either no launch happened or the data did not arrive in time. | No report |
| VEF 72388 | Las Vegas, NV | No weather balloon data from this station reached the model for this cycle — either no launch happened or the data did not arrive in time. | No report |
| GRB 72645 | Green Bay/A.-Straubel, WI | No weather balloon data from this station reached the model for this cycle — either no launch happened or the data did not arrive in time. | No report |
| UNR 72662 | Rapid City/Regional Airport, S, SD | No weather balloon data from this station reached the model for this cycle — either no launch happened or the data did not arrive in time. | No report |
| OTX 72786 | Spokane, WA | No weather balloon data from this station reached the model for this cycle — either no launch happened or the data did not arrive in time. | No report |
| OTZ 70133 | Kotzebue, Ralph Wien, 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. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| 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. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| SNP 70308 | St. Paul Islands, 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. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| AKN 70326 | King Salmon, 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. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| TWC 72274 | Tucson, AZ | 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. unrecognised status code 10159 | 10159 |
| OHX 72327 | Nashville/Metropolitan, TN | Ground equipment failure — the station’s tracking/receiving equipment was down, so no usable sounding was produced. | 10142 |
| 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. | 10142 |
| SHV 72248 | Shreveport/Reg, LA | The station reported, but part of the sounding transmission was missing — specifically TTBB, the "significant levels" section that carries the extra detail between the standard pressure levels. | Missing TTBB |
| BDA 78016 | L F Wade Intl · Bermuda | The station reported, but part of the sounding transmission was missing — specifically TTBB, the "significant levels" section that carries the extra detail between the standard pressure levels. | Missing TTBB |
| YPL 71845 | Pickle Lake A, Ont · Canada | Quality control removed part of this sounding before it reached the models: temps 843-840 mb...non-meteorological lapse rates. The rest of the sounding was still used. | Purged temps 843-840 mb...non-meteorological lapse rates |
| MFL 72202 | Miami, FL | Quality control removed part of this sounding before it reached the models: temps 802-681 mb...non-meteorological lapse rates. The rest of the sounding was still used. | Purged temps 802-681 mb...non-meteorological lapse rates |
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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 260309
ADMSDM
SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD
0308Z SAT SEP 26 2026
The 00Z GFS has started and is running on time.
There were 10 Alaskan...25 Canadian...60 CONUS...15 Mexican...
9 Caribbean and 10 Pacific stations available for GFS ingest. In
addition, there were 21 dropsondes courtesy of NOAA aircraft
recon missions in the vicinity of Polo in the Eastern Pacific
and 15 dropsondes courtesy of USAF Reserve aircraft recon
missions in the vicinity of Nolo in the Central Pacific.
00Z UPDATED RAOB RECAP...
72206/JAX - No report
72265/MAF - No report
72365/ABQ - No report
72388/VEF - No report
72645/GRB - No report
72662/UNR - No report
72786/OTX - No report
70133/OTZ - 10159
70219/BET - 10159
70308/SNP - 10159
70326/AKN - 10159
72274/TWC - 10159
72327/OHX - 10142
78384/GCM - 10142
72248/SHV - Missing TTBB
78016/BDA - Missing TTBB
71845/YPL - Purged temps 843-840 mb...non-meteorological lapse
rates
72202/MFL - Purged temps 802-681 mb...non-meteorological lapse
rates
Handel/SDM/NCO