Serving for more than thirty years, the WX5FWD SKYWARN™ team are volunteer radio operator liaisons for the Fort Worth National Weather Service (NWS) North Texas SKYWARN™ Spotters. During SKYWARN events, you are reporting information to our team and the NWS warning forecasters. Three goals of a storm spotter are to safely observe, identify and report conditions.

Weather spotters provide what's called "ground truth" to the National Weather Service and emergency weather management. Spotters are needed because, while radar is very good at helping the National Weather Service see what's going on in the upper atmosphere, it's unable to detect what's actually happening on the ground because of the curvature of the Earth. Knowing the "ground truth" about a weather event from the location can be the deciding factor to issue a warning.

Online Storm Spotter Training

Submitted by wd5m on Mon, 2025-06-02 08:53

The Fort Worth National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office (WFO) conducts storm spotter training sessions every year from about January through March. These training sessions are scheduled and published via their SKYWARN web page.

The Fort Worth NWS also has a Youtube channel that includes some older recordings of storm spotter training.

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Repeater Lists and Maps

Submitted by wd5m on Sun, 2025-05-18 13:34
CWA SKYWARN Frequencies

The links below are repeater list queries from Repeater Book within the 46 county warning area (CWA) for the Fort Worth Texas National Weather Service (NWS) Warning Forecast Office (WFO). Please note, these lists are dependent on information provided to Repeater Book by repeater owners, trustees and users. These lists may be incomplete or have errors. Please submit change requests to Repeater Book.

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CWA SKYWARN Frequencies Table

Submitted by wd5m on Fri, 2025-05-02 17:16
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CWA Local SKYWARN Frequencies Table

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Weather Notifications via ntfy app

Submitted by wd5m on Sun, 2025-03-02 12:20

Updated with changed topic names.

Weather notifications are available from our Weather Message Server by way of the ntfy App. Notifications are available for the entire FWD County Warning Area (CWA) or geographic areas that are based on the Council of Government (COG) Regions. The COG areas are for those who are not interested in receiving every notification in the entire CWA.

You can use either the ntfy app or a web browser to receive notifications. The app is available from both the Apple Store and the Google Play Store. Both the app and web browser versions are configured by subscribing to a topic. Note: Topic names are case sensitive

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WX5FWD Radio Desk Modernization Project

Submitted by wd5m on Wed, 2025-01-29 19:50

We created a brief video to highlight our NWS Radio Desk Modernization Project.

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