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Learn More About Doppler Radar

  • Learn More About Doppler RadarLearn More About Doppler Radar

  • When severe weather hits, the most important piece of weather equipment  KLTV has is the StormTracker7 Live Doppler Radar Network. Doppler Radar is a weather instrument specially designed to monitor wind turbulence in a storm by bouncing a radar beam off of raindrops or hail, then determining frequency shifts.

  • Radar systems gather information by bouncing radio waves off of objects. Weather forecasters examine rainfall and other weather events using a special kind of radar called Doppler radar. A high-powered antenna rotates and sends out pulses of radio waves.