SKYWARN Recognition Day

OSL TO:
National Weather Service
500 Weather Station Road
Old Hickory, TN 37138

K4OHX is the Amateur Radio Station used by the hams at the National Weather Service (NWS) in Nashville. A vital part of operations during severe weather is contact with weather spotters in the field. The National Weather Service office in Nashville uses amateur radio as one method of communicating with spotter and emergency management organizations. The National Weather Service, in cooperation with local and state emergency management and amateur radio groups across Middle Tennessee, have developed a network of repeaters to pass warning and radar information to the spotter groups, and to receive real-time reports of severe weather from the spotters. The system is called the MTEARS Repeater Link System. http://www.mtears.org/