As a baseline it is appropriate to begin with a review of the existing system. The primary weather surveillance radar system operated by U.S. agencies is the WSR-88D (NEXRAD) system, consisting of ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — State Sen. Rob Kupec has sponsored a bill to fill five critical gaps in low-level radar observations in Minnesota in the first year and eight critical gaps in subsequent years.

U.S. Rep. Dale Strong, R-Monrovia, is pushing for a new weather radar system for north Alabama. During a National Weather Service Oversight hearing this week, Strong, vice chair of the Commerce, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On this day in 1957, the United States officially entered the era of modern weather observation with the commissioning of the WSR-57 radar in Miami, Florida. It marked the first ...

First widely used radar technology was developed for military purpose during World War II. Today, more than half a century later, there is a much wider radar application area beyond the military one.

As a consequence of the development of the science of radar meteorology and the advent of the NEXRAD system, weather radar has become the primary means of detecting, describing, tracking, and ...