At a time when a series of storms are gripping the nation, a key part of the nation’s weather tracking system experienced an outage, potentially affecting forecasters’ ability to warn people of dangerous weather. Time is of the essence when it comes to alerting people, especially for tornadoes.

Radar data sites for the National Weather Service experienced a network outage lasting over five hours. During this outage, some warning services were impacted across many parts of the country. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page