 WX5FWD SKYWARN® TeamThe SKYWARN® Radio Desk Team for the Fort Worth National Weather Service (NWS) Office |
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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. The Texas Thunderbolt - Spotter NewsletterSubmitted by wd5m on Sun, 2011-01-02 12:47Winter 2011 - In This issue
The Texas Thunderbolt - Spotter Newsletter is published from the NWS Preparedness and Storm Spotter Information page. New Flood Inundation Map Available on the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service Web PortalSubmitted by wd5m on Mon, 2010-08-30 14:10Feb. 9, 1870: Feds Get on Top of the WeatherSubmitted by wd5m on Tue, 2010-02-09 19:36Feb. 9, 1870: Feds Get on Top of the Weather 1870: President Ulysses S. Grant signs a bill creating what we now call the National Weather Service. Forecasting models were simple but generally effective. It had been obvious for centuries that weather in North America generally moves from west to east, or southwest to northeast. But other than looking upwind, that knowledge was little help in predicting the weather until you could move weather reports downwind faster than the weather itself was moving. The telegraph finally made that possible. The Smithsonian Institution in 1849 began supplying weather instruments to telegraph companies. Volunteer observers submitted observations to the Smithsonian, which tracked the movement of storms across the country. Several states soon established their own weather services to gather data.  |
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