 WX5FWD SKYWARN® TeamServing the Fort Worth National Weather Service Office |
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Serving for more than thirty years, the WX5FWD SKYWARN™ team are volunteer radio operator liaisons for the Fort Worth National Weather Service (NWS) North Texas SKYWARN™ Spotters. During SKYWARN events, you are reporting information to our team and the NWS warning forecasters. Three goals of a storm spotter are to safely observe, identify and report conditions. Weather spotters provide what's called "ground truth" to the National Weather Service and emergency weather management. Spotters are needed because, while radar is very good at helping the National Weather Service see what's going on in the upper atmosphere, it's unable to detect what's actually happening on the ground because of the curvature of the Earth. Knowing the "ground truth" about a weather event from the location can be the deciding factor to issue a warning. 2020 NWS Online SKYWARN ClassesSubmitted by wd5m on Mon, 2020-03-16 17:37
From: National Weather Service, Fort Worth
NWS Fort Worth will be hosting 3 ONLINE SKYWARN Classes! These classes are open to all North and Central Texas residents. Due to participant limitations, please register for only one class. Severe Weather PreparednessSubmitted by wd5m on Fri, 2020-03-06 14:18
This message comes from Jennifer Dunn - Warning Coordination Meteorologist National Weather Service Fort Worth, TX Help us spread preparedness tips for the upcoming severe weather season. 2018 ARRL Field Day is June 23-24Submitted by wd5m on Wed, 2018-06-20 14:23
The Fort Worth NWS SKYWARN Radio Desk team will be active on several bands and modes during Field Day, Saturday-Sunday, June 23-24, from the Fort Worth National Weather Service Forecast Office. Our special event call sign is W5T. We hope to contact you, and add your call sign and information to our log. We'll publish the bands, frequencies, and other information periodically during the event on the wx5fwd.org web site and social media WX5FWD Twitter account and FaceBook. ARRL Field Day is the most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend of June, more than 40,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations. Facebook support for API postings by Weather Message may end August 1, 2018Submitted by wd5m on Sat, 2018-04-28 08:49Periodically, when the embedded "SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT" section references "spotter activation" we have published the NWS Hazardous Weather Outlook (HWO) product on Facebook, including links to the full text and other related information. We do this hoping to provide wider visibility to spotters, and others, that may need to check their severe weather forecasts plans. We automated this HWO posting using the Weather Message software package. Recently, Facebook posted a notice on their blog about changes to their API that will prevent Weather Message, and similar software, from publishing messages on Facebook. This change by Facebook is schedule to occur August 1, 2018. 2017 SKYWARN Recognition Day QSL LogSubmitted by wd5m on Sun, 2017-12-10 12:02
Thank you! Everyone who participates in SKYWARN storm spotting makes SKYWARN Recognition Day a wonderful event. We hope everyone enjoyed themselves. The W5W/WX5FWD station logged 280 contacts in total. We have created a log of contacts with a link to display a QSL card for printing. Click on the Read More to display the QSL Log page.  |
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