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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. The office operates two Doppler weather radars, one in Tulsa (INX), and the other in Fort Smith, Arkansas (SRX). Steve Piltz is the Meteorologist-In-Charge (MIC) of this office. [1]
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 ...
Jim Giles (1939–December 20, 2006) was a longtime television meteorologist with CBS affiliate KOTV, Channel 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A "longtime fixture" on Oklahoma television, after his death the Tulsa World described him as "perhaps the best-known weatherman in this area".
In June 1936, the NRL's first prototype radar system, now operating at 28.6 MHz, was demonstrated to government officials, successfully tracking an aircraft at distances up to 25 miles (40 km). Their radar was based on low frequency signals, at least by today's standards, and thus required large antennas , making it impractical for ship or ...
"I am looking forward to contributing their story back to the living. This is their time to have their appropriate recognition."
Tulsa's legendary Cain's Ballroom is turning 100 in 2024, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Hanson are among the acts who are going to help the iconic Oklahoma ...
A weather map consisting of a station model plot of Oklahoma Mesonet data overlaid with WSR-88D weather radar data depicting possible horizontal convective rolls as a potential contributing factor in the incipient 3 May 1999 tornado outbreak [1] A mobile mesonet also documented tornadic supercells and their immediate environments during this event.
Trolley begins operating. [18] Tulsa High School built. [16] Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, now named OneOK, founded. Downtown Tulsa, looking east on 2nd Street from Main Street, 1908. 1907 Tulsa becomes part of the new U.S. state of Oklahoma, and county seat of newly formed Tulsa County. Henry Kendall College moved from Muskogee to Tulsa. [4 ...