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Welcome to NCEP Central Operations
As the information technology center for the National Weather Service, NCO executes and manages upgrades to the NCEP model production suite, enterprise applications, and network services for the entire NWS, and provides 24x7 monitoring and customer support.

Our vision is to set the standard for information technology excellence for the NWS, serving as a valued technical asset for the NWS and NOAA in defining and accomplishing mission goals, and to be as renowned for IT management as NCEP is for scientific excellence.
SENIOR DUTY METEOROLOGIST NWS ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE
NWS NCEP CENTRAL OPERATIONS COLLEGE PARK MD
1515Z FRI MAY 22 2026

12Z NCEP model production is running on time with 11 Alaskan...
26 Canadian...38 CONUS...14 Mexican...8 Caribbean...and 9
Pacific stations available for ingest.

UPDATED 12Z GFS RAOB RECAP...
70414/SYA - No report
72202/MFL - No report
72215/FFC - No report for the NAM...Full report in for the GFS
72240/LCH - No report
72248/SHV - No report
72251/CRP - No report
72365/ABQ - No report
72451/DDC - No report
72456/TOP - No report
72476/GJT - No report
72558/OAX - No report
72562/LBF - No report
72572/SLC - No report
72582/LKN - No report
72597/MFR - No report
72645/GRB - No report
72659/ABR - No report
72662/UNR - No report
72764/BIS - No report
74455/DVN - No report
91348/PNI - No report for the NAM...Full report in for the GFS
70133/OTZ - 10159
70308/SNP - 10159
72274/TWC - 10159
72340/LZK - 10142...Ground equipment failure
72363/AMA - 10159
72364/EPZ - 10159
72376/FGZ - 10159
72672/RIW - 10159
72681/BOI - 10159
72776/TFX - 10159
72786/OTX - 10159
78384/GCM - 10142...Ground equipment failure
72327/OHX - Short to 599mb...10141...Incomplete report; full
report to follow
78016/BDA - Missing Part TTBB


Kempisty/SDM/NCO/NCEP
BLEND Model Upgrade May 5, 2026
Upgrade the National Blend of Models (NBM) to version 5.0

AIGFS December 17, 2025
AIGEFS and HGEFS Implementation

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