NWS Forecast Office serving Dallas-Fort Worth, north central Texas
The
National Weather Service Fort Worth, Texas
(
NWS Fort Worth
) is a local weather forecast office of the
National Weather Service
responsible for monitoring weather conditions for 46 counties in north central
Texas
, including the
Dallas-Fort Worth Metro Area
(the Metroplex) and
Waco, Texas
.
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History
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Present day
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The current National Weather Service Fort Worth is located at 3401 Northern Cross Blvd, Fort Worth, TX in the northeastern part of Fort Worth, near
Meacham International Airport
, and is in charge of issuing local forecasts and weather warnings for north central Texas.
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It is one of 13 National Weather Service offices located in Texas.
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The building that the Fort Worth office is located in also houses the West Gulf River Forecast Center, one of 13 in the United States. This office is responsible for the entire river basin between the
Sabine River
along the
Texas
-
Louisiana
border in the east to the
Rio Grande River
in southern
Colorado
,
New Mexico
, and south Texas.
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Other rivers in the responsibility area of the WGRFC include the
Pecos
,
Nueces
,
San Antonio River
,
Guadalupe
,
Colorado
,
Brazos
,
Trinity
, and
Neches
rivers.
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NOAA Weather Radio
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The Fort Worth Weather Forecast Office maintains thirteen
NOAA Weather Radio
transmitters across north Texas and far south Oklahoma to transmit routine extended and specialized short-term forecasts, current weather observations, hazardous weather outlooks and historical weather information. Each of the transmitters, through the
Emergency Alert System
, also disseminate watches, warnings and advisories issued by the NWS office, severe thunderstorm and tornado watches issued by the Storm Prediction Center and other emergency information to the public.
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The office schedules a required weekly test of the
Specific Area Message Encoding
system for public alert dissemination on all thirteen NOAA Weather Radio transmitters in the region each Wednesday between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. and between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. (all times Central); exceptions exist if there is a threat of severe weather that day within the listening area of any or all of the stations, in which case the test will be postponed until the following Wednesday, barring that severe weather is not forecast to occur then.
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The Lightning Bolt
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Since early 2009, all NOAA Weather Radio Stations within the North Texas region began airing a monthly 15 minute talk show titled "The Lightning Bolt" where two to five listener-submitted questions related to weather are answered by meteorologists, who also would provide weather-related safety tips and trivia.
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Stations
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City of license
|
Call sign
|
Frequency (
MHz
)
|
Counties served
|
Fort Worth
|
KEC55
|
162.550 MHz
|
Bosque
,
Collin
,
Dallas
,
Denton
,
Ellis
,
Erath
,
Hill
,
Hood
,
Johnson
,
Parker
,
Somervell
,
Tarrant
, and
Wise
|
Dallas
|
KEC56
|
162.400 MHz
|
Collin
,
Dallas
,
Denton
,
Ellis
,
Hunt
,
Kaufman
,
Rockwall
, and
Tarrant
|
Muenster
|
KHA99
|
162.425 MHz
|
Cooke
,
Denton
,
Grayson
,
Montague
, and
Wise
counties in
Texas
as well as
Carter
,
Jefferson
, and
Love
counties in
Oklahoma
|
Cumby
|
KWN31
|
162.500 MHz
|
Collin
,
Delta
,
Fannin
,
Franklin
,
Hopkins
,
Hunt
,
Kaufman
,
Rains
,
Rockwall
,
Van Zandt
, and
Wood
|
Stephenville
|
KWN33
|
162.450 MHz
|
Bosque
,
Brown
,
Comanche
,
Eastland
,
Erath
,
Hamilton
,
Hood
,
Mills
,
Palo Pinto
,
Somervell
, and
Stephens
|
Palestine
|
KWN34
|
162.450 MHz
|
Anderson
,
Cherokee
,
Freestone
,
Henderson
,
Houston
,
Leon
, and
Navarro
|
Corsicana
|
KXI87
|
162.525 MHz
|
Anderson
,
Ellis
,
Erath
,
Freestone
,
Henderson
,
Hill
,
Kaufman
,
Limestone
,
Navarro
, and
Van Zandt
|
Cisco
|
WNG636
|
162.500 MHz
|
Brown
,
Callahan
,
Comanche
,
Eastland
,
Erath
,
Shackelford
, and
Stephens
|
Milano
|
WNG649
|
162.525 MHz
|
Bell
,
Brazos
,
Burleson
,
Falls
,
Hill
,
Lee
,
Milam
,
Robertson
, and
Willamson
|
Mineral Wells
|
WNG651
|
162.525 MHz
|
Erath
,
Hood
,
Jack
,
Palo Pinto
,
Parker
,
Stephens
,
Tarrant
,
Wise
, and
Young
|
Paris
|
WXK20
|
162.550 MHz
|
Delta
,
Fannin
,
Franklin
,
Hopkins
,
Hunt
,
Lamar
,
Red River
, &
Titus
counties in
Texas
and
Bryan
&
Choctaw
counties in
Oklahoma
|
Sherman
|
WXK22
|
162.475 MHz
|
Collin
,
Cooke
,
Denton
,
Fannin
, and
Grayson
counties in
Texas
as well as
Bryan
,
Carter
,
Johnston
,
Love
, and
Marshall
counties in
Oklahoma
|
Waco
|
WXK35
|
162.475 MHz
|
Bell
,
Bosque
,
Coryell
,
Falls
,
Hamilton
,
Hill
,
Lampasas
,
Limestone
,
McLennan
,
Milam
,
Navarro
, and
Robertson
|
References
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External links
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Alaska Region
|
- Anchorage, Alaska (AFC)
- Fairbanks, Alaska (AFG)
- Juneau, Alaska (AJK)
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Central Region
|
- Denver/Boulder, Colorado (BOU)
- Grand Junction, Colorado (GJT)
- Pueblo, Colorado (PUB)
- Chicago, Illinois
(LOT)
- Lincoln, Illinois
(ILX)
- Indianapolis, Indiana (IND)
- Northern Indiana
(IWX)
- Quad Cities, IL/IA
(DVN)
- Des Moines, Iowa
(DMX)
- Dodge City, Kansas (DDC)
- Goodland, Kansas (GLD)
- Topeka, Kansas
(TOP)
- Wichita, Kansas
(ICT)
- Jackson, Kentucky (JKL)
- Louisville, Kentucky (LMK)
- Paducah, Kentucky
(PAH)
- Detroit/Pontiac, Michigan (DTX)
- Gaylord, Michigan (APX)
- Grand Rapids, Michigan (GRR)
- Marquette, Michigan (MQT)
- Duluth, Minnesota (DLH)
- Minneapolis/Twin Cities, Minnesota
(MPX)
- Kansas City/Pleasant Hill
(EAX)
- Springfield, Missouri (SGF)
- St. Louis, Missouri
(LSX)
- Hastings, Nebraska (GID)
- North Platte, Nebraska (LBF)
- Omaha/Valley, Nebraska (OAX)
- Bismarck, North Dakota (BIS)
- Grand Forks, North Dakota (FGF)
- Aberdeen, South Dakota (ABR)
- Rapid City, South Dakota (UNR)
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota (FSD)
- Green Bay, Wisconsin (GRB)
- La Crosse, Wisconsin (ARX)
- Milwaukee/Sullivan, Wisconsin (MKX)
- Cheyenne, Wyoming (CYS)
- Riverton, Wyoming (RIW)
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Eastern Region
|
- Caribou, Maine
(CAR)
- Gray/Portland, Maine
(GYX)
- Boston, Massachusetts
(BOX)
- Mount Holly/Philadelphia, New Jersey (PHI)
- Albany, New York
(ALY)
- Binghamton, New York
(BGM)
- Buffalo, New York
(BUF)
- New York/Upton, New York (OKX)
- Newport/Morehead City, North Carolina (MHX)
- Raleigh, North Carolina
(RAH)
- Wilmington, North Carolina (ILM)
- Cleveland, Ohio (CLE)
- Wilmington, Ohio (ILN)
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(PBZ)
- State College, Pennsylvania
(CTP)
- Charleston, South Carolina (CHS)
- Columbia, South Carolina (CAE)
- Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (GSP)
- Burlington, Vermont
(BTV)
- Baltimore/Washington, Virginia
(LWX)
- Blacksburg, Virginia (RNK)
- Wakefield, Virginia (AKQ)
- Charleston, West Virginia (RLX)
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Pacific Region
|
- Tiyan, Guam (GUM)
- Honolulu, Hawaii (HFO)
- Pago Pago, American Samoa (PPG)
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Southern Region
|
- Birmingham, Alabama (BMX)
- Huntsville, Alabama (HUN)
- Mobile/Pensacola, Alabama
(MOB)
- North Little Rock, Arkansas
(LZK)
- Jacksonville, Florida (JAX)
- Key West, Florida (KEY)
- Melbourne, Florida (MLB)
- Miami, Florida
(MFL)
- Tallahassee, Florida (TAE)
- Tampa, Florida
(TBW)
- Peachtree City/Atlanta, Georgia (FFC)
- Lake Charles, Louisiana (LCH)
- New Orleans/Baton Rouge, Louisiana
(LIX)
- Shreveport, Louisiana
(SHV)
- Jackson, Mississippi (JAN)
- Albuquerque, New Mexico (ABQ)
- Norman/Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
(OUN)
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
(TSA)
- San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU)
- Memphis, Tennessee
(MEG)
- Morristown/Knoxville, Tennessee (MRX)
- Nashville, Tennessee (OHX)
- Amarillo, Texas
(AMA)
- Austin/San Antonio, Texas (EWX)
- Brownsville, Texas (BRO)
- Corpus Christi, Texas (CRP)
- Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas
(FWD)
- El Paso, Texas (EPZ)
- Houston/Galveston, Texas (HGX)
- Lubbock, Texas (LUB)
- Midland/Odessa, Texas (MAF)
- San Angelo, Texas (SJT)
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Western Region
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- Flagstaff, Arizona (FGZ)
- Phoenix, Arizona (PSR)
- Tucson, Arizona (TWC)
- Eureka, California (EKA)
- Los Angeles/Oxnard, California
(LOX)
- Sacramento, California (STO)
- San Diego, California (SGX)
- San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey, California (MTR)
- San Joaquin Valley/Hanford, California (HNX)
- Boise, Idaho
(BOI)
- Pocatello, Idaho (PIH)
- Billings, Montana (BYZ)
- Glasgow, Montana (GGW)
- Great Falls, Montana (TFX)
- Missoula, Montana (MSO)
- Elko, Nevada (LKN)
- Las Vegas, Nevada (VEF)
- Reno, Nevada (REV)
- Medford, Oregon (MFR)
- Pendleton, Oregon (PDT)
- Portland, Oregon (PQR)
- Salt Lake City, Utah (SLC)
- Seattle, Washington (SEW)
- Spokane, Washington (OTX)
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