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.

2026 SKYWARN Storm Spotter Training schedule has been released!

Submitted by wd5m on Thu, 2026-01-08 21:19

Please visit this Fort Worth NWS schedule web page to find spotter training locations or webinars. This page may continue to be updated through March.

Severe Weather Education Training Schedule

Weather Notifications via Pushover

Submitted by wd5m on Fri, 2025-10-31 13:54
Pushover

We moved from NTFY.wx5fwd.net to Pushover.net for notifications

Who? Everyone using our NTFY.wx5fwd.net notification service should move to our Pushover notification service as explained below.

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Please Support Us!

Submitted by wd5m on Tue, 2025-09-30 12:41

The WX5FWD SKYWARN® Team is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The WX5FWD SKYWARN® Team organization is entirely supported by volunteers and donations. Although the NWS facilitates us to operate from the forecast office and their tower, the radio desk equipment and time are provided by volunteers and donations.

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WX5FWD Server reboot COMPLETED

Submitted by wd5m on Fri, 2025-11-14 10:23

A recent security update for Linux requires us to reboot some WX5FWD servers to complete the update. The WX5FWD Wireguard VPN, EchoLink proxy and VoIP servers will be rebooted between 10PM 11/15/2025 Saturday night and 6AM 11/16/2025 Sunday morning. Rebooting usually takes a minute or two. Clients should automatically reconnect after the servers come back online.

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Online Storm Spotter Training

Submitted by wd5m on Mon, 2025-06-02 08:53

The Fort Worth National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office (WFO) conducts storm spotter training sessions every year from about January through March. These training sessions are scheduled and published via their SKYWARN web page.

The Fort Worth NWS also has a Youtube channel that includes some older recordings of storm spotter training.

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