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Winter Storm Bringing Widespread Hazardous Weather to the Eastern U.S.

A rapidly-intensifying winter storm continues to bring heavy snow, high winds, and blizzard conditions over the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes through today. An Arctic front will lead in a period of gusty to high winds and sharply colder temperatures over the entire eastern U.S. Heavy lake effect snow is then expected from Lakes Erie and Ontario through New Year's Day. Read More >

NWS Wilmington Spotter Page
Amateur Radio

 

The HAM radio network, which serves the Wilmington, Ohio forecast area, is set up to facilitate a four stage process.
  1. The front lines are the HAM radio operators (HAMs) in the field.
  2. HAMs will radio in their reports to their regional net controller in either Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, or West Union.
  3. These net controllers will then relay the information to the Wilmington net controller.
  4. The Wilmington net controller will then pass the reports to the operational staff at the National Weather Service. The Wilmington net control station is located in the NWS building near the operational floor.
A map showing how counties and the regional net controllers are divided up can be seen below.


 
Frequencies and Links
Dayton (W8OK) 146.640 MHz - Southern Miami Valley
146.835 MHz - Northern Miami Valley
Website
Cincinnati (W8NWS) 146.880 MHz - Tri-State Region Website
Columbus (N8WX) 146.760 MHz - Central Ohio Website
West Union (K8GE) 147.000 MHz - South-Central OH / Northeast KY Website
Wilmington (WX8WIL) 147.120 MHz - Clinton County  
What To Report