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Weather Discussion => General Weather Chat => Topic started by: twcctornado77 on June 06, 2012, 02:33:43 PM
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I was just wanting to know: Which National Weather Service office serves your area now, and which one used to pre- NWS modernization. The one that serves me now (Ashe County, NC) is Blacksburg, and the one that used to serve me....... I think it was either Bristol, Greensboro or Charlotte...... I can't remember. A CWA map of those old WSOs would be nice to clear this up.....
EDIT: I know now which WSO served Ashe County.... It was the WSO in Asheville.....
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North Dakota had three or four offices around before the modernization of NWS came around. Today, I'm served by Grand Forks (15 minute walk from my dorm room :biggrin: ).
Originally (and I'm not sure on this; trying to remember what a NWS friend of mine told me), we had an office in Fargo, one in Bismarck, and one in a tiny little town called Williston. You may know that town as where ND has had its recent oil boom.
Anyway, when modernization came around, ND was put under total control by Bismarck (western and central ND) and Fargo (eastern ND and northwestern MN), before Fargo relocated from the Hector Airfield and moved to Grand Forks, on UND's campus. Ironically, the Williston office is still technically in service - there are only two employees there that man the phones. We have no clue when it will be shut down. :P
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I have always been served by the National Weather Service office in Ruskin, Florida.
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A CWA map of them old WSOs would be nice, if there's one out there.
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It's self-explanatory for my area since I work there, so I'll mention that Sterling, VA covers my hometown in WV.
FYI, twcctornado77: Every individual NWS office is called a WFO (Weather Forecast Office), not a WSO. ;)
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I've always been served by Memphis, TN and the KNQA radar.
Just curious, does anyone know the smallest and largest WFOs, respectively?
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I've always been served by Memphis, TN and the KNQA radar.
Just curious, does anyone know the smallest and largest WFOs, respectively?
I don't know the smallest, but I'm willing to bet that the NWS in Peachtree City, GA is the largest in terms of CWA size........ They got all of the counties from the old WSO at Atlanta, the largest part of the counties from the old WSO in Macon, the largest part of the counties from the old WSO at Athens, a large number of the counties from the old WSO at Columbus, GA, and two or three counties from the old Savannah WSO........ I think they have 96 counties in their CWA......... By the smallest WSO, the one in Apalachicola had two counties in it's CWA. The smallest WFO is probably out west- El Paso, Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, etc;
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It's not a map, but it is a list of NWS offices from past to present in all 50 states. :yes:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/?n=nws-wb-history (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/?n=nws-wb-history)
According to that, Adairsville, Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Rome, Savannah, Thomasville, and Waycross, GA had NWS offices in GA. Atlanta itself used to have a NWS office.
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It's not a map, but it is a list of NWS offices from past to present in all 50 states. :yes:
[url]http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/?n=nws-wb-history[/url] ([url]http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/?n=nws-wb-history[/url])
According to that, Adairsville, Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Rome, Savannah, Thomasville, and Waycross, GA had NWS offices in GA. Atlanta itself used to have a NWS office.
Adairsville, Rome and Thomasville all came in the Weather Bureau period.
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I've always been served by Memphis, TN and the KNQA radar.
Just curious, does anyone know the smallest and largest WFOs, respectively?
I don't know the smallest, but I'm willing to bet that the NWS in Peachtree City, GA is the largest in terms of CWA size........ They got all of the counties from the old WSO at Atlanta, the largest part of the counties from the old WSO in Macon, the largest part of the counties from the old WSO at Athens, a large number of the counties from the old WSO at Columbus, GA, and two or three counties from the old Savannah WSO........ I think they have 96 counties in their CWA......... By the smallest WSO, the one in Apalachicola had two counties in it's CWA. The smallest WFO is probably out west- El Paso, Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, etc;
If we're talking area by the number of counties, then sure. If we're talking number of square miles, then I think the Las Vegas WFO takes the cake for the largest area, while Huntsville or New York is the smallest.
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The Huntsville CWA was actually half of the size it is now back in the WSO days....... There was a map of the Alabama WSO CWAs, but I can't find it now.
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My CWA is one of the smallest and probably is the smallest, but serves the largest in terms of population. The NWS that serves here KOKX.
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There's currently 2 that serve Massachusetts, Blue Hill and Taunton.
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There's currently 2 that serve Massachusetts, Blue Hill and Taunton.
Blue Hill I dont think had any forecast responsibilities
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There's currently 2 that serve Massachusetts, Blue Hill and Taunton.
Blue Hill I dont think had any forecast responsibilities
Blue Hill used to but not anymore most of the forecasts come from Taunton.
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There's currently 2 that serve Massachusetts, Blue Hill and Taunton.
Blue Hill I dont think had any forecast responsibilities
Blue Hill used to but not anymore most of the forecasts come from Taunton.
Was Blue Hill the one that operated the Worcester radar, issued warnings for Worcester, or was Blue Hill and Worcester two separate offices??
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There's currently 2 that serve Massachusetts, Blue Hill and Taunton.
Blue Hill I dont think had any forecast responsibilities
Blue Hill used to but not anymore most of the forecasts come from Taunton.
Was Blue Hill the one that operated the Worcester radar, issued warnings for Worcester, or was Blue Hill and Worcester two separate offices??
I think they were separate but i might be wrong.
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i believe ours is Mt Holly
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NWS Quad Cities, and while I am at school it's NWS Chicago.
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Detroit/Pontiac (DTX), located in White Lake, MI serves all of Southeast Michigan.
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There's currently 2 that serve Massachusetts, Blue Hill and Taunton.
Nope. Blue Hill is a weather observatory. However, the NWS in Albany, New York (ALY) serves Berkshire County.
There's currently 2 that serve Massachusetts, Blue Hill and Taunton.
Blue Hill I dont think had any forecast responsibilities
Blue Hill used to but not anymore most of the forecasts come from Taunton.
Was Blue Hill the one that operated the Worcester radar, issued warnings for Worcester, or was Blue Hill and Worcester two separate offices??
I think they were separate but i might be wrong.
Blue Hill is a county over from Taunton, and a few miles south of Boston...
I've always been served by the NWS at Taunton, Massachusetts, (BOX) in Boston pre-modernization, but have lived a town away from the Gray, Maine (GYX) area my entire life.
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Our NWS office is located outside Mount Holly in Westampton Township, New Jersey.
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My local NWS office is located in North Charleston, SC with their radar being near the SC/GA border.
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New Orleans/Baton Rouge in Slidell, LA.
The New Orleans and Baton Rouge offices were consolidated in the 90s (the New Orleans office used to be at New Orleans Int'l Airport and moved to Slidell in '79; the Baton Rouge office was at Ryan Field).
At one point, the New Orleans office served Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
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New Orleans/Baton Rouge in Slidell, LA.
The New Orleans and Baton Rouge offices were consolidated in the 90s (the New Orleans office used to be at New Orleans Int'l Airport and moved to Slidell in '79; the Baton Rouge office was at Ryan Field).
At one point, the New Orleans office served Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
I think the NO office served all of thosenstates was back in the Weather Bureau days, which was pre-1970.
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The NWS in Birmingham, which office is located about 25 south of downtown Birmingham. (BMX)
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In addition to KDTX (Detroit/Pontiac) serving SE Michigan, there's also 3 other NWS offices in Michigan:
KGRR (Grand Rapids, MI) serving *most* of SW Michigan
KAPX (Gaylord, MI) serving the Northern Lower Peninsula of MI.
KMQT (Marquette, MI) serving the Upper Peninsula of MI.
Also, KIWX (Northern Indiana) serves the southern-most tier of counties in southwest Michigan from Berrien County (the Benton Harbor area) to Hillsdale County.
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Mine used to be Dayton (KDAY) until the newer Doppler radar arrived in Wilmington (KILN) in the '90s. It serves southwest and west-central Ohio, northern Kentucky and extreme east-central and southeastern Indiana.
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AKQ in Wakefield after it was moved from Norfolk some time ago. It covers central and eastern VA including NE NC.