DAYTON — In Southwest Ohio, in the Dayton region, we know how quickly the weather can change from mild to severe. Every minute counts when it comes to warning you and your family about approaching ...

Tune into any TV weather report and you’ll hear the words “Doppler radar” as meteorologists track storms across California. But how does Doppler radar work? And how accurate is it? The concept of ...

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 ...

A tool designed for war became a tool designed to save lives. Doppler radar is a crown jewel of modern science that helps meteorologists save countless lives every year—and it’s a complex technology ...

Live 5 Weather Radar data is supplied from two different sources. Our station owned ADC Doppler System and the National Weather Service WSR-88D NexRad system, which is composed of a network of about ...

Meteorologists and weather experts in South Texas rely heavily on Doppler radar technology, but how does it work? How can a giant soccer-ball-shaped tower, known as the radome, detect clouds hundreds ...

Doppler radar uses the Doppler effect to measure the radial velocity of targets in the antenna's directional beam. The Doppler effect shifts the received frequency up or down based on the radial ...

Doppler radar. It's a million watts of power or one gigawatt. To put it into terms we can visualize: 1 million watts is 3.125 million solar panels, 431 wind turbines, 100 million LEDs, 1.3 million ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Many people have seen Doppler Rader, but do you know how it works? First of all, it looks like a giant golf ball on a tee, but that’s not the actual radar. That’s called the ...