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In the early 1950s, the department received a 3-cm weather radar, AN/CPS-9, from the US Air Force. Using this 3-cm radar, researchers studied mid-latitude mesoscale systems, severe storms, and land-falling cyclones. [2] The AN/CPS-9 model was the first purpose-built weather radar. [3]
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).
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 ...
Christmas or Hanukkah travel is underway for millions, and the weather may be a factor. For some, snow, rain, even a little ice could disrupt your plans. Here's what you need to know in order to ...
As the storm moved out of the Midwest, it brought winter weather to the higher elevations of the Appalachians, mid-Atlantic and Northeast. A photo from The Plains, Virginia, showed snow coating ...
After this week's storm produced severe weather on Wednesday from the southern Plains to the mid-Mississippi Valley, showers and thunderstorms occurred from the northwest Gulf coast to the mid ...
WWF-75 is located just northeast of Bourbon, Missouri operating at 162.525 MHz. The station serves Cuba, Sullivan, and Union and provides weather and hazard information for Gasconade, Franklin, Crawford, Washington, Iron, and Phelps counties in Missouri.
A mesocyclone is a meso-gamma mesoscale (or storm scale) region of rotation (), typically around 2 to 6 mi (3.2 to 9.7 km) in diameter, most often noticed on radar within thunderstorms.