The current network of weather radars in the United States was installed in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. There are nearly 160 weather radars in the network. The radars are the NEXRAD WSR-88D ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Doppler radar is an important tool ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Doppler radar is vital to know what lurks in the clouds, and new technology is coming that will give us an even better view into the sky. Our eyes only tell us so much about the ...

BOULDER, Colorado — When a tornadic supercell thunderstorm forms on the eastern plains of Colorado, meteorologists use a Doppler radar to get critical scans and analyze the storm’s dangerous potential ...

There is fascinating technology behind the forecasts on your favorite weather app or Spectrum News weather broadcast. In recent articles, we highlighted the multi-billion dollar tech on weather ...

Phased array antenna systems are at the cusp of ubiquity. We now see Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna systems on WiFi routers. Soon phased array weather radar systems will help to predict ...

NORMAN, Oklahoma (KTRK) -- This summer, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith traveled to Norman, Oklahoma, to learn more about the world's most advanced weather radar named HORUS. She joined the radar ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - In the first part of the Local 12 investigation “Doppler Down,” Duane Pohlman exposed how a lightning strike caused the Doppler radar at National Weather Service in Wilmington to ...

One limit to the use of phased array radars is the physical size of the arrays. Their large size prevents their use in collision avoidance systems in automobiles and other platforms that could benefit ...

Doppler radar is an important tool meteorologists use to track where thunderstorms are occurring, how intense they are, and where they are moving. WSR-88D, the current radar that became operational in ...