National Weather Service that serves/ used to serve your area

[twcctornado77]

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.....

[Mr. Rainman]

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  ).

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.

[Zach]

I have always been served by the National Weather Service office in Ruskin, Florida.

[twcctornado77]

A CWA map of them old WSOs would be nice, if there's one out there.

[phw115wvwx]

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.

[Trevor]

I've always been served by Memphis, TN and the KNQA radar.

Just curious, does anyone know the smallest and largest WFOs, respectively?

[twcctornado77]

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;

[toxictwister00]

It's not a map, but it is a list of NWS offices from past to present in all 50 states.

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.

[twcctornado77]

It's not a map, but it is a list of NWS offices from past to present in all 50 states.

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.

Adairsville, Rome and Thomasville all came in the Weather Bureau period.

[Mr. Rainman]

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.

[twcctornado77]

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.

[TWCCraig]

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.

[gt1racerlHDl]

There's currently 2 that serve Massachusetts, Blue Hill and Taunton.

[twcctornado77]

There's currently 2 that serve Massachusetts, Blue Hill and Taunton.

Blue Hill I dont think had any forecast responsibilities

[gt1racerlHDl]

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.