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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Blacksburg VA
839 AM EDT Mon May 12 2025

...National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Blacksburg,
Virginia Scheduled Outage...

The National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in
Blacksburg, VA will be conducting a required, scheduled
update to their Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
(AWIPS) from May 13, 2025 through approximately May 15, 2025.

The NWS uses the AWIPS computer system to display and integrate
weather and water information, and to send lifesaving information,
such as weather and water warnings, to the public. During the
time of the update, forecast operations will be conducted by our
service back-up office in Raleigh, NC to minimize any potential
interruption to services. No impacts to our core services of
forecast products and weather watches, warnings and advisories are
expected during this period. However, limited impacts will occur
to the following services:


NOAA Weather Transmitters: All NOAA Weather Radio Transmitters
maintained by NWS Blacksburg will be off the air through the time
of the update. This includes the following transmitters in North
Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia:
Mount Jefferson (WNG88  162.500 MHz)
Richlands (WZ2543  162.425 MHz)
Wytheville (WZ2500  162.450 MHz)
Roanoke (WXL60  162.475 MHz)
Lynchburg (WXL92  162.550 MHz)
South Boston (KJY86  162.525 MHz)
Hinton (WXM72  162.425 MHz)

Water Level Forecasts: Water level forecast services will be
degraded due to a less frequent update cycle. Forecasts will
remain on https://water.noaa.gov/wfo/rnk through this period.

Local graphical forecast maps that are hosted in numerous places
on www.weather.gov/rnk will not be updated.
This includes all maps on the Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook
page (https://www.weather.gov/erh/ghwo?wfo=rnk), the majority of
the graphics on the Emergency Managers Self Brief page
(https://www.weather.gov/rnk/emer), some experimental fire
applications (https://www.weather.gov/rnk/fire), climate graphs
for Blacksburg Forecast Area
(https://www.weather.gov/rnk/climatePlots), and the Weather Story
(https://www.weather.gov/rnk/weatherstory).

The forecast office in Blacksburg, VA will remain open and
staffed through the period for public and partner phone calls
and additional functions that can be completed without AWIPS.
For any questions please email rnk.webmaster@noaa.gov


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