National Weather Service Louisville is a weather forecast office responsible for monitoring weather conditions for 49 counties in north-central, south-central, and east-central

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and 10 counties in southern

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. The office is in charge of weather forecasts, warnings and local statements as well as aviation weather. It is also equipped with a WSR-88D (NEXRAD) radar, and an

Automated Surface Observing System Airport weather stations are automated sensor suites which are designed to serve aviation and meteorological operations, weather forecasting and climatology. Automated airport weather stations have become part of the backbone of weather observing ...

(ASOS) that greatly increase the ability to forecast. The NEXRAD radar site utilized by the forecast office is located near

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on the north side of the

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NOAA Weather Radio

The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Louisville, Kentucky provides programming for nine

NOAA Weather Radio NOAA Weather Radio NWR; also known as NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards is an automated 24-hour network of VHF FM weather radio stations in the United States (U.S.) that broadcast weather information directly from a nearby National Weather Serv ...

stations in the office's jurisdictions.

Weather Radio stations

References

External links

Louisville Office Main Page
{{List of National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices Organizations based in Louisville, Kentucky

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