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[ldm-users] NCEP SOAP Service handing out old forecast data?

Hi All,
We noticed something and wondered if anyone else on here had encountered this and/or has an idea what's happening.
Beginning on Saturday, September 7, some time after 0500 UTC, our requests began receiving NDFD XML output from the NCEP SOAP Service which has the forecast for previous day(s). For example, our query at 1240 UTC on Sep 7 yielded XML like this: 

      <creation-date 
refresh-frequency="PT30M">2024-09-07T12:15:07Z</creation-date>

      [...]

    <time-layout time-coordinate="local" summarization="12hourly">
      <layout-key>k-p24h-n7-1</layout-key>
<start-valid-time period-name="Friday">2024-09-06T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time> 
      <end-valid-time>2024-09-06T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time period-name="Saturday">2024-09-07T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time> 
      <end-valid-time>2024-09-07T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time period-name="Sunday">2024-09-08T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time> 
      <end-valid-time>2024-09-08T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>

Note that it still included Friday.
Queries to this service from earlier today (Friday) yielded similar strange results: 

      <creation-date 
refresh-frequency="PT30M">2024-09-13T19:05:27Z</creation-date>

      [...]

    <time-layout time-coordinate="local" summarization="12hourly">
      <layout-key>k-p24h-n7-1</layout-key>
<start-valid-time period-name="Tomorrow">2024-09-12T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time> 
      <end-valid-time>2024-09-12T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time period-name="Friday">2024-09-13T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time> 
      <end-valid-time>2024-09-13T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time period-name="Saturday">2024-09-14T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time> 
      <end-valid-time>2024-09-14T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time period-name="Sunday">2024-09-15T06:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time> 
      <end-valid-time>2024-09-15T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
We haven't seen any recent NWS change notices which appeared to apply to this service, nor any admin messages even remotely related, so we're at a loss. 


Jared





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Jared P Bostic
OCS/Mesonet Operations
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