The National Weather Service operates 160 weather radars across the U.S. and its territories. Radar detects the size and motion of particles in rain, snow, hail and dust, which helps ...

While the current radar system is considered the gold standard for detecting severe weather, its scan rate of four to six minutes can miss rapidly evolving events.

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The Outer Banks and Dare County are popular vacation spots in North Carolina, but Hurricane Erin may be problematic. What ...

A research scientist with NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory is studying the formation of hailstones, capturing footage of the process in flight.

“Erin is a large hurricane,” forecasters said, noting that hurricane-force winds extend up to 80 miles from the storm’s ...