Jump to content

National Weather Service Raleigh, North Carolina

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NWS Raleigh County Warning area covers 31 counties.

The National Weather Service Raleigh, North Carolina (RAH) is a local Weather Forecast Office for central North Carolina. The NWS in Raleigh serves 31 counties in NC and these 31 counties have a population of 7.74 million people, including the cities of Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Description

[edit]

The NWS In Raleigh began in January 1887. In 1896, NWS Raleigh moved to the Fisher Building, and remained there until 1908, when the office moved to the fourth floor of the Masonic Temple in Raleigh. It would remain here until December 1940. In December 1940, the office moved to the Administration Building at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (called Raleigh Municipal Airport at the time), and would move a few times on the airport grounds over the years. In November 1979, NWS Raleigh moved to the Cargo Building at RDU, and would remain there until 1994. On January 19, 1994, NWS Raleigh moved to the Centennial Campus at North Carolina State University, though a skeleton staff remained at RDU to take observations and man the WSR-74 radar until June 30, 1996.

NWS Raleigh Operates 8 NOAA Weather Radio transmitters throughout central North Carolina.[1]

Call sign City Frequency SAME CODE
WWF60 Buck Mountain, NC 162.500 MHz 037007 (Anson County)
WXL58 Chapel Hill, NC 162.550 MHz 037183 (Wake County)
WNG597 Ellerbe, NC 162.400 MHz 037123 (Montgomery County)
WXL50 St. Pauls, NC 162.475 MHz 037051 (Cumberland County)
WNG706 Garner, NC 162.450 MHz 037101 (Johnston County)
WNG586 Henderson, NC 162.500 MHz 037069 (Franklin County)
WXL59 Tarboro, NC 162.475 MHz 037015 (Bertie County)
WXL42 Winston-Salem, NC 162.400 MHz 037081 (Guilford County)

NWS Raleigh Also operates a WSR-88D Doppler weather radar with the Callsign, KRAX and also operates a TDWR With the callsign TRDU.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ NOAA Weather Radio, NOAA. Retrieved August 1, 2018.

https://www.weather.gov/rah/ https://www.weather.gov/rah/virtualtourwhere https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=WWF60 https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=WXL58 https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=WNG597 https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=WXL50 https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=WNG706 https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=WNG586 https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=WXL59 https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=WXL42

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Weather_Service_Raleigh,_North_Carolina&oldid=1132924349"