KVBX — Vandenberg AFB, California

The WSR-88D at Vandenberg AFB, California. Below is the National Weather Service's own loop for this radar; open it in HookEcho for every tilt of the Level 2 volume, velocity, dual-pol and the archive back to 1991.

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The current radar scan from KVBX at Vandenberg AFB, California — KVBX base reflectivity, the current volume, rendered by HookEcho.

Site ID: KVBX
Network: NEXRAD WSR-88D
Location: Vandenberg AFB, California
Coordinates: 34.8383, -120.3978
Elevation: 373 m
Local time zone: America/Los_Angeles

What HookEcho shows that the image above does not

That is one product at one tilt, one volume old. HookEcho reads the Level 2 volume from KVBX directly: every elevation angle, storm-relative velocity with dealiasing, correlation coefficient for debris signatures, and the warnings, storm reports and lightning drawn over the same map.

Nearby radars

When a storm sits between sites, the closer radar sees lower into it. These are the four nearest to KVBX.

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