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04-04-2014, 01:20 AM
National Weather Service's Websites Fail During Tornado Outbreak
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As spring's first significant tornado outbreak got underway on Thursday after**on, several key National Weather Service (NWS) websites were experiencing intermittent service.
See also: Spring's First Tornado Outbreak Is Underway (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/first-spring-tornado-underway/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Many people could **t reach the website for the NWS ****** that is responsible for issuing tornado watches across the country, k**wn as the Storm Prediction Center (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/www.spc.ncep.**aa.gov), for example.
For a time on Thursday after**on, the NWS homepage (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/www.weather.gov) was displaying neither weather watches **r warnings. Making matters worse, the directions issued to the public to get around the outages were understandable to computer science majors — and probably ** one else. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/weather-service-websites-down/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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As spring's first significant tornado outbreak got underway on Thursday after**on, several key National Weather Service (NWS) websites were experiencing intermittent service.
See also: Spring's First Tornado Outbreak Is Underway (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/first-spring-tornado-underway/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Many people could **t reach the website for the NWS ****** that is responsible for issuing tornado watches across the country, k**wn as the Storm Prediction Center (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/www.spc.ncep.**aa.gov), for example.
For a time on Thursday after**on, the NWS homepage (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/www.weather.gov) was displaying neither weather watches **r warnings. Making matters worse, the directions issued to the public to get around the outages were understandable to computer science majors — and probably ** one else. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/weather-service-websites-down/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Tornado (http://mashable.com/category/tornado/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), National Weather Service (http://mashable.com/category/national-weather-service/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us (http://mashable.com/us/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Climate (http://mashable.com/climate/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/YK4Gg1r0aZs