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The third (and what should be the last) line of storms is sweeping across Southern Illinois. The current weather radar can be found here. ... Evansville Doppler weather radar.
KFVS also operates its own Doppler weather radar, called "Live StormTeam Radar", that is located on top of the Hirsch building. It is a Collins radar sold by ADC in Bloomington, Indiana, and is the only live radar source in the market since the National Weather Service data seen on rival stations is delayed.
The 2013 Washington, Illinois, tornado was an unusually powerful and violent tornado that caused catastrophic damage to the city of Washington and several farmsteads in rural central Illinois during the early afternoon of November 17, 2013. The tornado resulted in three fatalities and injured 125 people.
On June 20, 2021, the Storm Prediction Center had outlined an Enhanced (3/5) risk for severe weather over extreme eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and Indiana, southern Michigan, and extreme northwest Ohio for the potential of severe weather, focused on damaging straight-line winds, with the potential for isolated large hail and non-significant tornadoes.
In 1974 another radar was installed in Marseilles greatly improving the radar coverage in Central Illinois. [2] A new radar, WSR-74C, was installed in Moline and helped the Peoria NWS issue severe weather warnings for the region. [2] In 1980 the Springfield office received a WSR-74C radar system to use for local warning operations. [2]
Get the Carol Stream, IL local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Doppler on Wheels (or DOW) is a fleet of X-band and C-band mobile and quickly-deployable truck-borne radars which are the core instrumentation of the Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets [1] affiliated with the University of Alabama Huntsville [2] and led by Joshua Wurman, with the funding partially provided by the National Science Foundation ...
The WSR-74 was introduced as a "gap filler", as well as an updated radar that, among other things, was transistor-based. [3] In the early 1970s, Enterprise Electronics Corporation (EEC), based out of Enterprise, Alabama won the contract to design, manufacture, test, and deliver the entire WSR-74 radar network (both C and S-Band versions).