GRLevel3 - radar stuck

[DRMabe]

Just wondering how to correct this. The radar KRAX (Raleigh/Durham NC) is stuck with an image from 4/09/11 around 8pm. There were alot of storms in the area at the time. I was watching some storms come in from the south east last night, and there was nothing around here at the time. I opened the KRAX to see if anything had developed anywhere else, and all these big storms with hail were on the screen just south of me. I didn't even notice the date and started to flip out that I had missed them. Anyway, just trying to get that radar to reset or something.

 

[Rob H]

That part is cut off in your screenshot, but if you were using the default public NOAA feed, are you sure the servers weren't overloaded and you didn't have any fresh radar data?

 

[DRMabe]

That part is cut off in your screenshot, but if you were using the default public NOAA feed, are you sure the servers weren't overloaded and you didn't have any fresh radar data?

I don't think the servers are overloaded, it was like that last night around 7pm, and it's still like that now. I took that screen shot as I was typing the original post. All other radars are fine and update normally.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

It looks like KRAX is down. See the NWS Level III Radar System Site Status page to check if any particular radar is up or down. In this case, it says that RAX has been down since about 0005 UTC. The FTM pertinent to RAX:

NOUS62 KRAH 112003
FTMRAX
Message Date: Apr 11 2011 20:03:24 KRAX WSR88D REMAINS OUT OF SERVICE DUE TO A BROKEN ELEVATION MOTOR. REPLACEMENT PART WILL ARRIVE LATE TONIGHT. TECHNICIANS WILL BEGIN WORKING ON THE UNIT AT 6AM TUESDAY. ESTIMATED RETURN TO SERVICE IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. CONSULT ADJACENT RADARS
...KFCX...KLTX...KGSP...KAKQ...KCAE...KMHX.

 

[Rob H]

Nevermind, here's the answer:

000
NOUS62 KRAH 112003
FTMRAX
Message Date: Apr 11 2011 20:03:24

KRAX WSR88D REMAINS OUT OF SERVICE DUE TO A BROKEN ELEVATION MOTOR. REPLACEMENT
PART WILL ARRIVE LATE TONIGHT. TECHNICIANS WILL BEGIN WORKING ON THE UNIT AT 6AM
TUESDAY. ESTIMATED RETURN TO SERVICE IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. CONSULT ADJACENT
RADARS...KFCX...KLTX...KGSP...KAKQ...KCAE...KMHX.

edit: D'oh, Jeff beat me!

 

[DRMabe]

I was wondering that, but didn't think it would have anything at all on the screen if it was down. Guess it makes sense though. Thanks for the help guys!