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05-23-2014, 02:22 AM
National Weather Service Warning System Hobbled by Outage at Worst Possible Time
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As severe thunderstorms, some spawning damaging tornadoes, erupted across the country from Denver, Colorado, to Albany, New York, a widespread data outage hit the National Weather Service (NWS) on Thursday. Radar data stopped flowing to mobile apps and NWS websites for at least a half an hour, and at least some NWS ******s lost the ability to disseminate severe weather warnings through any means other than social media.
In a post on its Facebook page at about 4:45 p.m. ET, the National Weather Service forecast ****** in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, which covers the Philadelphia metro area, stated: "Our products are **T being sent out at this time due to technical issue. All warnings will be sent via social media." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/22/national-weather-service-radar-warning-outage-during-outbreak/?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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In a post on its Facebook page at about 4:45 p.m. ET, the National Weather Service forecast ****** in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, which covers the Philadelphia metro area, stated: "Our products are **T being sent out at this time due to technical issue. All warnings will be sent via social media." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/22/national-weather-service-radar-warning-outage-during-outbreak/?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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