PADUCAH, Ky. (KFVS) - The doppler radar, also known as WSR-88D is located at the National Weather Service Office in Paducah. For the past several weeks, the radar has received some major upgrades. The ...

Outside every National Weather Service (NWS) office around the U.S. stands what looks like an enormous white soccer ball, perched atop metal scaffolding several stories high. These somewhat plain ...

Washington, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, has introduced ...

The current network of weather radars in the United States was installed in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. There are nearly 160 weather radars in the network. The radars are the NEXRAD WSR-88D ...

When you are outdoors and see dark clouds rolling in and you pick up you phone to look at the radar - have you ever wondered how it all works? Doppler radar is one of the most powerful tools in modern ...

NORMAN, Okla. — When a tornado tears through a community, a National Weather Service storm survey team will sort through the damage left behind to estimate the twister’s peak wind and assign the ...

NORMAN (AP) -- Forecasters at the National Weather Service are casting aside the Doppler radar that served them for three decades to take up a new technology that will help them predict storms more ...

An “intense” band of lake effect snow was falling across the Chicago area late Friday morning, with a new winter storm issued for parts of Cook County and the National Weather Service warning of low ...