Public Information Statement
Issued by NWS Portland, OR

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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Portland OR
1045 AM PDT Wed Jul 2 2025

...KRTX Radar Down for Maintenance...

Starting at 8 am PDT on Wednesday July 9th and ending by Friday July
18, 2025, the WSR-88D KRTX Radar will be down for emergency
maintenance to replace multiple panels on the radar dome.

There is no ideal time of year to take the system down, but our
meteorologists still have access to high-resolution near term
models, satellite data, weather observations, lightning data,
Skywarn Spotters, CoCoRAHS observers and public reports that assist
in their warning decision making if we get impactful weather in that
time frame.

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