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 ...

During hurricane season, many people track the path of each storm using the National Weather Service’s Doppler radar or other weather radar systems. After Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big ...

NEW ORLEANS — The National Weather Service in New Orleans reports that its radar is back online after a network issue took it offline for about two hours on Wednesday. As severe weather warnings ...

Former WGN Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling climbed a 100-foot tower at the National Weather Service office in Romeoville to get an up-close look at the Mammoth, a 28-foot Doppler antenna that ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The National Weather Service (NWS) is on heightened alert after recent threats from a militia-style group that believes the agency’s Doppler radar systems are being ...

At 5:36 p.m. on Monday, the Buffalo National Weather Service Office issued a Tornado Warning for a portion of northeast Cattaraugus County. At this time, there was a severe thunderstorm capable of ...

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 ...