Topic: SAB and NESDIS Product Outages
Date/Time Issued: August 11, 2021 1614Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: SAB Tropical, Volcano, Fire, and
Precipitation products
Date/Time of Initial Impact: August 10, 2021 1800Z
Date/Time of Expected End: TBD
Length of Outage: TBD
Details/Specifics of Change: A cut network cable has resulted in a
loss of communication between NCEP and SAB. Reportedly, the local power company
is onsite and has determined that three power poles need to be replaced before
the fiber can be repaired.
The following SAB products are affected:
Tropical - All tropical cyclone position and intensity estimates not making it into OPAH and the ATCF.
Volcano - All Volcanic Ash Advisories and Volcanic Ash Graphics are not making it to the OSPO and SSD web pages at
Washington VAAC Homepage (noaa.gov)
And also through the GP5 Listserve
Fire - Fire and Smoke VGF files not being disseminated to NCEP Centers
Precipitation - All Precipitation text products are not being disseminated to the SPSD Precip Page
In addition – this outage is affecting non-PDA data distribution from NESDIS to multiple NOAA and DoD sites. NCEP access to NESDIS McIDAS servers is down, resulting in a data loss to N-AWIPS, CPC, NHC, and AWC (and possibly others; primarily Himawari and Metosat data). We are experiencing connection failures with DoD sites AFWA, NAVO and FNMOC.
Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880
Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A