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A private Christian university, a Boy Scouts ranch and a college's health sciences school are part of a new weather research project aimed at boosting weather safety in the Oklahoma City metro area.
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Air Force within the ...
The Radar Operations Center (ROC) is a National Weather Service (NWS) unit that coordinates the development, maintenance, ...
The current office in Tulsa maintains a WSR-88D (NEXRAD) radar system, and Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) that greatly improve forecasting in the region. Tulsa is in charge of weather forecasts, warnings and local statements as well as aviation weather and NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts in its service area.
Oklahoma weather radar (Hit refresh on your browser for the latest radar loop.) This article originally appeared on Las Cruces Sun-News: Watch T-storms in Washington and Osage counties with live radar
In 1973, the Laboratory commissioned a second Doppler weather radar, named the Cimarron radar, located 15 miles (24 km) west of Oklahoma City. This enabled NSSL to perform dual Doppler experiments while scanning storms with both radars simultaneously. [ 6 ]
Just before 8 p.m. CDT, the National Weather Service (NWS) wrote on Twitter that a "significant tornado" was ongoing northeast of Cole, which is located about 30 miles south of Oklahoma City.
Phased array radar (reflectivity; click to animate) of the series of supercell thunderstorms that impacted the Oklahoma City metropolitan area on May 31.. A quasi-linear complex of thunderstorms began developing near the Highway 81 corridor west of Oklahoma City between 4:00 and 4:45 p.m. CDT, and rapidly reached severe intensity.