A NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radar in Indiana, the United States, operated by National Weather Service, NOAA.
- Station
- Northern Indiana (KIWX)
- Site
- North Webster
- Operator
- National Weather Service, NOAA
- Network
- NEXRAD WSR-88D
- Antenna
- 41.359° N, 85.700° W, 959 ft (292 m) above sea level
- Products
- Reflectivity, composite reflectivity, echo tops, vertically integrated liquid, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase (KDP), spectrum width
KIWX is the NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radar the National Weather Service calls Northern Indiana. The antenna stands at North Webster in Kosciusko County, in the lakes region of northern Indiana, about 4 km from the town and 9 km from Syracuse. NCEI files the station under Fort Wayne, which is about 54 km to the southeast; South Bend is 58 km to the northwest, Elkhart 43 km, Goshen 27 km and Warsaw 19 km away.
The radar was one of three systems added to the network after the original deployment, with Fort Smith, Arkansas and Hytop, Alabama, following a Department of Commerce report to Congress in October 1995. The Radar Operations Center's history records the North Webster radar as installed in March 1998, and the Northern Indiana office began warning operations with it on March 17, 1998. That office was formed in March 1998 by merging the Fort Wayne and South Bend offices and moved into its building between Syracuse and North Webster in August 1999. The radar is owned and operated by the National Weather Service.
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.