A NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radar in Texas, the United States, operated by National Weather Service, NOAA.
- Station
- Brownsville (KBRO)
- Operator
- National Weather Service, NOAA
- Network
- NEXRAD WSR-88D
- Antenna
- 25.916° N, 97.419° W, 23 ft (7 m) above sea level
- Products
- Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase (KDP), spectrum width
KBRO is the National Weather Service's WSR-88D weather radar for Brownsville. The antenna stands in Cameron County 8 km east of the Brownsville city centre and about 9 km from Matamoros, across the border in Mexico. It is part of the NEXRAD network, and the NWS forecast office for Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley, at 20 S. Vermillion Avenue in Brownsville, is responsible for it. Harlingen is 41 km to the northwest and McAllen 87 km to the west.
In January 2021 the NWS scheduled a week-long outage to replace the radar's backup generator, fuel tanks and related components under the NEXRAD Service Life Extension Program, a series of upgrades meant to keep the network running into the 2030s. The NWS press release for that work described KBRO as one of 159 operational WSR-88D radars, supported by the Radar Operations Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Radar shows rain, snow and hail, not cloud, and nothing below its lowest beam; far from the antenna the beam passes high above the ground.