National
Weather Service Warning System Hobbled by
Outage at
Worst Possible Time
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."
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