Southern Region NWS Webpages Restored Following Temporary Outages

By Jillian MacMath, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer

April 22,2015; 9:47PM,EDT

 

 

The National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters website was displaying the message above amid a two-day regionwide outage.

The National Weather Service Southern Region was experiencing regionwide webpage outages on Tuesday, April 21, and Wednesday, April 22, ahead of a potential severe weather outbreak in the South.
According to the National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters, the region's website was displaying a temporary page as 'servers are undergoing maintenance.'
Numerous local forecasting sites elaborated on the issue via Twitter.
"We are experiencing a region-wide internet outage that affects reaching our webpage," the National Weather Service Fort Worth tweeted on Tuesday night.
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On Wednesday morning, the same office tweeted, "Our techs are working very hard this a.m. on the web services. We thank you for your patience while repairs are made."
In the meantime, some local forecasting sites provided backup webpages for basic weather information.
The webpages were restored on Wednesday afternoon.

UPDATE: Webpages are available but graphics are still unavailable. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Working hard to bring these back ASAP!
— NWS Southern Region (@NWS_Southern_US) April 22, 2015

Severe storms are forecast to threaten the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley on Wednesday, increasing in number from those that occurred in the region on Tuesday.