HARLAN, Iowa (KTIV) - Homes outside Harlan, Iowa were struck by an EF-3 tornado on Friday. While the large wedge tornado was ripping through southeastern Shelby County, a mobile Doppler radar project ...
Tune into any TV weather report and you’ll hear the words “Doppler radar” as meteorologists track storms across California. But how does Doppler radar work? And how accurate is it? The concept of ...
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 ...
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 ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) — Have you ever pulled up a weather radar app and spotted blobs of green or blue hovering around Wichita or another city—only to look outside and see nothing but clear skies? If ...