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.

Placefiles and Shapefiles for GRLevel3

Submitted by wd5m on Sat, 2020-11-14 23:28
Placefile We've created some GRLevel3 placefiles and shapefiles for SKYWARN® repeaters and roads in the County Warning Area (CWA).
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NWS Spotter Radio Desk Staffing with COVID-19

Submitted by wd5m on Tue, 2020-03-17 19:42

The National Weather Service, and our spotter radio desk team, are weighing risks versus benefit of staffing the NWS Spotter radio desk with the current COVID-19 pandemic. It is possible we may not place radio desk volunteers at the NWS. If that occurs, our radio volunteers will make efforts to monitor affected areas with home radio stations, and via linked radio systems, to relay spotter reports to the NWS. In the event spotters are unable to reach NWS radio desk operators, please use other means to relay your spotter reports to the NWS as outlined in spotter training. These include the following methods:

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2020 NWS Online SKYWARN Classes

Submitted by wd5m on Mon, 2020-03-16 17:37
2020 NWS Online SKYWARN Classes

From: National Weather Service, Fort Worth
Date: Monday, 16 March 2020 16:25 CDT

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.

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Severe Weather Preparedness

Submitted by wd5m on Fri, 2020-03-06 14:18
Severe Weather Preparedness

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.

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2018 ARRL Field Day is June 23-24

Submitted 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.

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