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Texas Towers were a set of three radar facilities off the eastern seaboard of the United States which were used for surveillance by the United States Air Force during the Cold War. Modeled on the offshore oil drilling platforms first employed off the Texas coast, they were in operation from 1958 to 1963.
Texas Tower 2; Texas Tower 3; Texas Tower 4; Thule Air Station; Thule Site N-32; Thule Tracking Station; Tierra Amarilla Air Force Station; Tin City Long Range Radar Site; Tonopah Air Force Station; Two Creeks Air Force Station
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 tower was the site of an accident and was destroyed by a winter storm on January 15, 1961. None of the 28 airmen and civilian contractors who were staffing the station survived. [2] Texas Tower 4 was one in a series of crewed radar stations called "Texas Towers" because they resembled the oil-drilling platforms of the Gulf of Mexico.
Parts of Texas and Louisiana were under a tornado watch Thursday night as a line of thunderstorms battered the south-central U.S., threatening the region with large hail, damaging winds and heavy ...
M-xx 1952 Phase I Mobile Radar station. SM-xx 1955 Phase II Mobile Radar Station. TM-xx 1959 Phase III Mobile station. TT-x Texas Towers, radar tower rigs off the East Coast of the United States, named because of their resemblance to oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Z-xx NORAD designation for sites after 31 July 1963. P, M, SM, and TM ...
Some parts of North Texas are seeing heavy rain on Christmas Eve. A Flash Flood Warning was issued for Dallas and Tarrant County until 2:30 p.m. A Flash Flood Warning has been issued for parts of ...
TM-xx designates a station of the 1957–60 "third phase mobile radar program" TT-x designates the Texas Towers, radar tower rigs off the East Coast. Z-xx is the NORAD identification code; Codes for Aerospace Defense Command radar stations outside the United States. C-xx sites on the Canadian Pinetree Line assigned to ADC