WX5FWD SKYWARN® Team

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.

CWA SKYWARN Frequencies Table

Submitted by wd5m on Mon, 2025-04-07 16:57

CWA Local SKYWARN Frequencies Table

Weather Notifications via ntfy app

Submitted by wd5m on Sun, 2025-03-02 12:20

Updated with changed topic names.

Weather notifications are available from our Weather Message Server by way of the ntfy App. Notifications are available for the entire FWD County Warning Area (CWA) or geographic areas that are based on the Council of Government (COG) Regions. The COG areas are for those who are not interested in receiving every notification in the entire CWA.

You can use either the ntfy app or a web browser to receive notifications. The app is available from both the Apple Store and the Google Play Store. Both the app and web browser versions are configured by subscribing to a topic. Note: Topic names are case sensitive

WX5FWD Radio Desk Modernization Project

Submitted by wd5m on Wed, 2025-01-29 19:50

We created a brief video to highlight our NWS Radio Desk Modernization Project.

Donate

Submitted by wd5m on Mon, 2024-11-11 17:34

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.

How to Submit A Report, What We Need to Know

Submitted by wd5m on Thu, 2024-02-22 18:36

The NWS Spotter Training program provides the basic information spotters need to safely observe and report severe weather information. Below are links any spotter can reference.

NWS Fort Worth Spotter Cheat Sheet
www.weather.gov/media/fwd/skywarn/Spotter%20Handout%202022.pdf

How to Submit A Report to NWS Fort Worth, What We Need to Know, What to Report (Our Wishlist)