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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
221 PM EDT Tue May 27 2025

...PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT ON PLANNED AWIPS UPDATE/OUTAGE 
JUNE 2 TO 4...

National Weather Service New York, NY (Upton, NY) will be 
conducting a required, scheduled update to their Advanced Weather 
Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) system from Monday June 2, 
2025 at 7am through approximately Wednesday June 4, 2025 at 5pm. 
The NWS uses the AWIPS computer system to display and integrate 
weather and water information, and to send life-saving 
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 Mount 
Holly/Philadelphia 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: 

All NOAA Weather Radio Transmitters maintained by NWS New York, 
NY will be off the air through the time of the install. This 
includes the following transmitters: New York City (KWO35), 
Riverhead, NY (WXM80), Meriden, CT (WXJ42) and Montville, CT 
(KHB47). The routine NOAA weather radio test will NOT be conducted
on Wednesday June 4, 2025. 

Total water level forecast services will be updated less 
frequently through this period. Forecasts will remain available at
water.noaa.gov/wfo/okx and www.weather.gov/erh/coastalflood?wfo=okx

Local graphical forecast maps that are hosted in various places 
on www.weather.gov/okx will not be updated. This includes all maps
on the Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook page 
(https://www.weather.gov/erh/ghwo?wfo=okx). 

Forecasts and observations recordings on our automated phone line
at 631-924-0517 will not be updated June 2-4. 

The forecast office in Upton, NY will remain open and staffed 
throughout this period for media and partner phone calls and 
additional functions that can be completed without AWIPS, 
including:
 
Upper air soundings will continue without interruption during the
outage. 

The KOKX radar will continue to send data during the 
outage. 

Significant Weather event briefings 
(https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/DSSBuilder/LatestBriefing.pdf) 
will remain updated as well as our daily weather story 
(https://www.weather.gov/okx/weatherstory).

Please contact our office at okx.webmaster@noaa.gov with any 
questions about this upgrade.


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