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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.
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2026 SKYWARN Storm Spotter Training schedule has been released!
Please visit this Fort Worth NWS schedule web page to find spotter training locations or webinars. This page may continue to be updated through March.
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A recent security update for Linux requires us to reboot some WX5FWD servers to complete the update. The WX5FWD Wireguard VPN, EchoLink proxy and VoIP servers will be rebooted between 10PM 11/15/2025 Saturday night and 6AM 11/16/2025 Sunday morning. Rebooting usually takes a minute or two. Clients should automatically reconnect after the servers come back online.