20Z DAY ONE

[Stephen Locke]

NOTE: THE NEXT DAY 1 OUTLOOK IS SCHEDULED BY 2000Z
CURRENT UTC TIME: 2101Z (4:01PM), RELOAD THIS PAGE TO UPDATE THE TIME

I've never seen it an hour late before. Have you?

 

[Pat Darrow]

Read somewhere they have a power outage and can't put anything out at the time. The UT MD has been up past expiration as well.

 

[Kory Hartman]

There is a new day 1 TEXT ONLY issued by Scott AFB, IL:

http://kamala.cod.edu/spc/latest.acus01.KWNS.html

 

[Pat Darrow]

Hmm - that COD one looks nearly identical to the text issued by SPC at 1129 CDT.

 

[Stephen Locke]

OMG We are on our own.

 

[Chad Cowan]

Apparently the SPC has Kevin Martin's "Ontario Weather Service" as backup for when they're non-operational...

DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
ISSUED BY 15TH OWS SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE IL
0246 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2010

VALID 192000Z - 201200Z

...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS OVER PARTS OF THE NRN AND CNTRL
PLAINS INTO UPPER MIDWEST...

..NRN AND CNTRL PLAINS INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST

12Z UPPER-AIR ANALYSIS AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOW A LARGE-SCALE
TROUGH PROGRESSING EWD THROUGH THE GREAT BASIN INTO

.....

.....

SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF
DIURNALLY-ENHANCED STORMS...A FEW OF WHICH WILL BE CAPABLE OF STRONG
WIND GUSTS AND SOME HAIL.

..15_OWS.. 08/19/2010

 

[jshields]

yep power outage. i was reading the sioux falls afd, and it mentions the power outage at the spc. no updated outlook, the latest mesoscale discussion is still up from 3.5 hours ago, and the forecast tools are still using the 18Z run of the RUC!! wonder what caused it? maybe it was those damn squirrels again that caused a power outage up here in the omaha area recently!!

 

[Chad Cowan]

yep power outage. i was reading the sioux falls afd, and it mentions the power outage at the spc. no updated outlook, the latest mesoscale discussion is still up from 3.5 hours ago, and the forecast tools are still using the 18Z run of the RUC!! wonder what caused it? maybe it was those damn squirrels again that caused a power outage up here in the omaha area recently!!

There was a data outage yesterday at the SRH when a construction worker in Denton, TX on I-35 cut through a data cable from the SRH office. I think this outage has to do with a power outage at the NWC, which houses the SPC.

 

[rdale]

The ADMNFD is a critical product to monitor... RealEMWIN has been sending me these all day:

NOUS42 KWNO 191845 ADMNFD SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS NCEP CENTRAL OPERATIONS CAMP SPRINGS MD 1841Z THU AUG 19 2010 THE SDM WAS INFORMED THAT SPC BUILDING POWER IS UNSTABLE AND OPERATIONS WERE TANSFERRED TO SCOTT AFB IL.. SPC`S PHONES ARE STILL WORKING BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO DATA. SPC ANTICIPATES BACKUP MODE FOR TWO HOURS... $$ SHRUELL/SDM/NCO/NCEP


NOUS42 KWNO 192059 ADMNFD SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NWS NCEP CENTRAL OPERATIONS CAMP SPRINGS MD 2057Z THU AUG 19 2010 SPC OUTAGE UPDATE... SPC IS MAKING STRIDES TO RESTORE BUILDING POWER..BACKUP OPERATIONS WILL REMAIN AT SCOTT AFB IL UNTIL APROXIMATELY 23Z. SPC`S PHONES ARE STILL WORKING BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO DATA. IF THERE ARE CONCERNS PLEASE CONTACT SPC.. $$ SHRUELL/SDM/NCO/NCEP 1

 

[Stephen Locke]

Does National Weather Service in Norman rely on external power? I thought it was self contained or had back-up.

 

[Patrick Marsh]

It hasn't been a fun day.

SPC has been in contact with Scott AFB throughout the afternoon. Power and systems are in the process of coming back right now and operations could return to normal within the next 1-2 hours.

 

[Patrick Marsh]

Does National Weather Service in Norman rely on external power? I thought it was self contained or had back-up.

We have backup power, but the backup systems become unstable. As a precautionary measure, systems were shut down and duties relegated to the appropriate backup offices. Once things checked out, systems slowly began to come back online.

 

[Jason Foster]

They were delayed sometime about a week or so ago. It was a day I chased locally, and remember the products were delayed and it was clear they had an outage. I can't remember the specifics, but it was obvious that power was the issue at the time.

 

[John Farley]

Looks like things are getting back to normal now:

SPC HAS REGAINED FORECAST AND WATCH OPERATIONS FROM SCOTT AFB
OPERATIONAL WEATHER SQUADRON /OWS/ AS OF 0100 UTC/20 AUG AFTER AIR
FORCE FORECASTERS ISSUED AN EXCEPTIONAL FORECAST WATCH EARLIER THIS
EVENING.

 

[Adam Lucio]

hmm...3 weeks ago Ben H Moved to Norman and now works in the national weather center and since then the SPC has gone down twice...I blame him.