00Z model run on time, 15 balloon reports flagged, satellite sector moved
Model status
NWS is producing the 00Z model run on schedule. Forecast model output should reach forecasters, apps and websites at the usual times.
“00Z” is the run’s start time in UTC. NWS runs its main models four times a day — 00Z, 06Z, 12Z and 18Z — and each run begins by digesting a global snapshot of current conditions taken at that hour.
122 weather balloon launches were available to feed this run (9 in Alaska, 24 in Canada, 61 in Lower 48, 12 in Mexico, 7 in Caribbean, 9 in Pacific). “Stations available for ingest” means balloon soundings that arrived in time to be folded into the model’s starting picture of the atmosphere. Twice a day, sites across North America release balloons that measure temperature, humidity, pressure and wind all the way up. More stations reporting means a better-anchored starting point.
Balloon reports 00Z NAM 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 of the NAM.
15 stations were flagged: 5 sent no usable sounding at all, 8 reported a numeric status code, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAX 72558 | Valley, NE | Quality control removed part of this sounding before it reached the models: temps/moisture 700-687mb...wet bulb effect. The rest of the sounding was still used. | Purged temps/moisture 700-687mb...wet bulb effect |
| SLC 72572 | Salt Lake City/Intl Ut, UT | Quality control removed part of this sounding before it reached the models: temps/moisture 422mb...wet bulb effect. The rest of the sounding was still used. | Purged temps/moisture 422mb...wet bulb effect |
| ADQ 70350 | Kodiak, AK | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| BRO 72250 | Brownsville/Intl, TX | Ground equipment failure — the station’s tracking/receiving equipment was down, so no usable sounding was produced. | 10142...Ground equipment failure |
| 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 |
| CUU 76225 | Not in our station table | The station reported status code 10158. 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 10158 | 10158...Flight equipment failure |
| 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...Ground equipment failure |
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 2 over the eastern Pacific, about 1170 mi E of Hilo, HI — to keep a close eye on a tropical system. 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
- 19.5°N, 137.1°W view on map
- Window
- from until
- Reason given
- monitoring Tropical Storm Norbert in the Eastern Pacific
Show the original message
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 140153
ADMSDM
SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD
0152Z MON SEP 14 2026
00Z NWS model production started on time with 9 Alaskan...
24 Canadian...61 CONUS...12 Mexican...7 Caribbean...and 9
Pacific stations available for ingest.
00Z NAM RAOB RECAP...
72558/OAX - Purged temps/moisture 700-687mb...wet bulb
effect
72572/SLC - Purged temps/moisture 422mb...wet bulb effect
70350/ADQ - No report
72206/JAX - No report
72388/VEF - No report
72645/GRB - No report
72786/OTX - No report
70133/OTZ - 10159
70219/BET - 10159
70308/SNP - 10159
70326/AKN - 10159
72250/BRO - 10142...Ground equipment failure
72274/TWC - 10159
76225/CUU - 10158...Flight equipment failure
78384/GCM - 10142...Ground equipment failure
MDS STATUS...
GOES-W MDS Sector 2 will be centered over 19.5N/137.1W from
0150Z to 15/0000Z in support of monitoring Tropical Storm
Norbert in the Eastern Pacific.
SDM/NCO