Outside every National Weather Service (NWS) office around the U.S. stands what looks like an enormous white soccer ball, perched atop metal scaffolding several stories high. These somewhat plain ...

Our local National Weather Service office in East Memphis is constantly working to keep you and your family safe during any type of weather.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The National Weather Service (NWS) is on heightened alert after recent threats from a militia-style group that believes the agency’s Doppler radar systems are being ...

There’s a very specific reason us meteorologists say the phrase “doppler radar.” Modern weather radars are doppler radars because they use the doppler effect to analyze not only where a storm is, but ...

When you are outdoors and see dark clouds rolling in and you pick up you phone to look at the radar - have you ever wondered how it all works? Doppler radar is one of the most powerful tools in modern ...

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 ...