WSR-57
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WSR-57 radars were the primary weather surveillance radar used by the United States for over 35 years. The National Weather Service operated a network of this model radar across the country, watching
WSR-57 radar antenna
Radar image of tornado-producing supercells over Minneapolis, 1965
The last image from NWS Miami's WSR-57 at the National Hurricane Center, taken just moments before the radar was blown off its mounts by Hurricane Andrew.
WSR-57 dome atop 30 Rockefeller
NEXRAD
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The WSR-88D, commonly known as NEXRAD, is a high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radar deployed across the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and South Korea as a network of 158 radar units individual
WSR-57
…National Weather Service's radar network until the 1990s. The WSR-57 radars were gradually replaced by the Weather Surveillance Radar - 1988, Doppler, WSR-88D, which NOAA named the NEXRAD network. The last WSR-57 radar in the United States was decommissioned on December 2, 1996. Operates on a wavelength of…
NEXRAD Radar at Fort Dix in New Jersey
Testbed of the WSR-88D on display at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.
NEXRAD sites in Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories, and military bases.
NEXRAD coverage below 10,000 feet