National Weather Service: Weather Forcast Office - Key West, FL
N 24° 33.190 W 081° 47.325
17R E 420120 N 2715700
The main weather station for the Florida Keys region. Has every weather instrument you could imagine. Several dopplar housing are seen around the complex.
Waymark Code: WM6J9Y
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 06/09/2009
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National Weather Service
Key West Forecast Office
1315 White Street
Key West, FL 33040
(305) 295-1316
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Oct. 1832
Rainfall measurements begin at the Sand Key Lighthouse, 9 miles south of Key West. The observations are not consistent though, as several of the following months are missing data. No weather agency has been organized by the U. S. Government yet.
Feb. 9, 1870
The U.S. National Weather Service begins in the Department of the Army. President Ulysses Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress authorizing the Secretary of War to establish a weather service within the Army. Weather observations are made at 24 locations by the Army signal corps and the word “forecast” becomes established. This resolution required the Secretary of War "to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories and for giving notice on the northern (Great) Lakes and on the seacoast by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms. Within the Department of War, it was assigned to the Signal Service Corps under Brigadier General Albert J. Meyer. General Meyer gave the National Weather Service its first name: The Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce.
Nov. 1, 1870
At 7:35a.m. the first systematized and synchronous meteorological reports were taken by observer-sergeants at 24 stations in the new agency. These observations, which were transmitted by telegraph to the central office in Washington, D.C., commenced the beginning of the new division of the Signal Service. A Weather Observing Station in Key West was among the original stations. Observations were taken at the Russell House on the west side of Duval Street, between Front and Green Streets.
March 1998
After further consideration by Congress and NWSHeadquarters, it is decided to keep the NWS office in Key West open and spin it up to Weather Forecast Office (WFO). The WFO concept allows one office to provide full weather services for an entire assigned area based on geography. Before, weather services for an area were split among neighboring offices. The NWS in Key West will serve the Florida Keys and a marine area covering almost 15,000 square miles across the southeast Gulf Of Mexico, the Florida Bay and the Florida Straits.
June 1, 2004
NWS breaks ground for a new, hurricane-resistant Weather Forecast Office in Key West. The new office will be designed to withstand wind speeds and storm surge levels associated with Category 5 hurricanes. To be constructed with a combination of concrete, reinforcing steel, and hurricane-impact-resistant glass, the new building will be designed to withstand sustained winds of 165 mph. The interior will also contain an additional concrete box designed to serve as a Severe Weather Occupancy Shelter to protect employees against winds up to 250 mph.
September 29, 2005
The National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office moved into its new building at 1315 White Street.
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