Historical Photos of the Louisville NWS Office

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1972. Plenty of maps and bulletins printed out and hung on the back walls.

December 1973. A meteorologist is sitting in front of a large console with numerous meteorological instrument dials, gauges, and charts.

April 7, 1978. A view of the old "74C" weather radar.

April 7, 1978. A meteorologist records weather information on NOAA Weather Radio. This system used tapes similar to 8-tracks, which were inserted in the slots for play. When a new message was to be recorded on a tape, the tape first needed to be erased with a large magnet.

January 1981. A meteorologist takes and records a weather observation.

July 28, 1981. The old NOAA Weather Radio system was kept in service for many years, before becoming computerized in the late 1990's.

Summer of 1982. A meteorologist sits in front of the huge, cumbersome computer system used in the 1980s.

Another view of the old NOAA Weather Radio system, probably from the mid 1980's. Note the racks of tapes in the foreground.