AWOS/ASOS question...
 

I have the AWOS phone number of a couple of local airports programmed into my phone. This morning, while attempting to decide if I should go try to squeeze in a few landings before work, I called one of them and heard something I have never heard before. After the standard winds, visibility, ceiling, etc...information it said: "Remarks: Northeast, East 10, East, Southwest 10." I assume this was telling me about cells that were in the area at the time. However, I wasnt aware that AWOS/ASOS had radar capability. A quick search of the NOAA website didnt help, as the airport in question isnt even listed in the AWOS/ASOS list for the state.

What am I missing here?

None of them have radar, although ASOS/AWOS-3 have almost everything else.

IIRC some of those systems have a voice recording, where a controller or airport manager can leave voice notes about notams, but I doubt they would use it for weather which changes rapidly. That sounds more like a TFR boundry maybe?

It was the same "mechanical" voice that gives the other information, not a recording of an actual person reading a NOTAM.

I'll have to check to see if there was a TFR here this morning.

Well, there arent any TFR's up for my area right now. But, now that I think about it, I heard the message in my first call, but a different message (same type of information) in my second call. So, something changed. Which leads me to think it wasnt a TFR.

Wind gusts?

I called the airport and they told me that it was variable winds that caused that. The number after the direction indicates the speed of the wind.

lightning?