National Weather Service Shreveport, Louisiana

National Weather Service Shreveport, Louisiana

National Weather Service - Shreveport, LA is a local weather forecast office responsible for monitoring weather conditions for counties in South Central and Southwestern Arkansas (Columbia, Lafayette, Little River, Hempstead, Howard, Miller, Nevada, and Union Counties), North Central and Northwestern Louisiana Parishes (Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto, Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Red River, Sabine, Union, Webster, and Winn), McCurtain County in Southeastern Oklahoma, and Eastern and Northeastern Texas Counties(Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Nacogdoches, Panola, Red River, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Titus, Upshur, and Wood). The current office in Shreveport maintains a WSR-88D (NEXRAD) radar system, and Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) that greatly improve forecasting in the region. Shreveport is in charge of weather forecasts, warnings and local statements as well as aviation weather. The name of the Doppler radar (WSR-88D), used by this office is SHV. Mario Valverde is the Meteorologist-In-Charge (MIC) of this office.

NOAA Weather Radio Stations Programmed by this office

Callsign	Cities	Frequency	Region
WXJ65	Broken Bow, OK.	162.470 MHz	McCurtain County
WNG650	Center, TX.	162.525 MHz	Shelby County
KWN32	Gilmer, TX.	162.425 MHz	Upshur County
WXK23	Lufkin, TX.	162.550 MHz	Lufkin-Nagocdoches
WXJ96	Monroe, LA.	162.550 MHz	Monroe-Ruston
WNG725	El Dorado, AR.	162.525 MHz	El Dorado
WXN87	Natchitoches, LA.	162.500 MHz	Southeast Ark-La-Tex
WXJ97	Shreveport, LA.	162.400 MHz	Ark-La-Tex
WXJ49	Texarkana, TX.	162.550 MHz	Texarkana metropolitan area
WXK36	Tyler, TX.	162.475 MHz	East Texas
WNG653	Marietta, TX.	162.525 MHz	Atlanta-Linden

External links

• NWS Shreveport's Official Main Page