and now the type of radar currently used by the National Weather Service is the WSR-88D, which was first invented in, you guessed it, 1988. It’s undergone numerous upgrades in the decades since ...

NWS in Lubbock newest gives details about the eight tornadoes that struck around West Texas and Lubbock County on June 5.

A tornadic debris signature (TDS) was noted from the KSRX WSR-88D as seen below. This tornado developed just west of Stilwell City Lake. It moved east-northeast toward Blanch, and then northeast ...

It’s the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler or WSR-88D weather radar operated by NWS on Guam and maintained by the U.S. Air Force, with support from the NWS Radar Operations Center.

Learn about NOAA's request for information for the development of a new weather radar network intended to replace the Weather ...

During the warm season when convective SIGMETs outnumber all other advisories, many pilots can’t seem to get enough ground-based weather radar images from the WSR-88D NEXRAD Doppler radars.

This particular weather radar, the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler, WSR-88D, underwent significant upgrades during the 2023 Service Life Extension Program, in which the weather radar ...

The WSR-88D system (Weather Surveillance Radar 1988 Doppler) is an advanced radar system which detects and tracks severe weather events like thunderstorms, showers and winter weather. Meteorologists ...

Using the datasets collected by WSR-88D radar located in Melbourne, FL, it is demonstrated that radar-based rainfall estimation using an adaptive RBF neural network is feasible. The results show that ...