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Weather forecast office
National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Los Angeles
Type Meteorological Jurisdiction
National Weather Service Headquarters 520 North Elevar Street
Oxnard, CA 93030 34.2071, -119.1377 Employees 28 Agency executives Mark Jackson, Meteorologist in Charge John Dumas, Science Operations Officer Eric Boldt, Warning Coordination Meteorologist Parent agency
National Weather Service Website
www .weather .gov /lox /
The National Weather Service Los Angeles is a local office of the
National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions in
Los Angeles ,
Ventura ,
Santa Barbara , and
San Luis Obispo counties, as well as adjacent
coastal waters out 60
nautical miles .
[1] The NWS Los Angeles office serves the third-most populous district in the nation, after NWS New York City and NWS Philadelphia.
[2]
History
The
Signal Service established an office at Los Angeles in 1877, at the corner of
Main and
Commercial Streets , with the Weather Bureau assuming responsibility in 1890. During the 1940s, the city office moved to the
Los Angeles Civic Center district. The Civic Center office closed in 1964, and the main forecast office was relocated at the
Wilshire Federal Building where it remained until the current Oxnard location opened in 1993.
[3]
An airport station was established at
Mines Field (now
LAX ) in 1931, with a District Forecast Office established there on April 7, 1947, having relocated from
Burbank . This satellite office was open until in 1997 when it was redesignated a NWS Contract Meteorological Observatory. In 2002 this observatory was transferred to the
Federal Aviation Administration .
[3]
A regional headquarters of the National Weather Service was located in Los Angeles from 1943 to 1949.
[3]
Wave height map created by National Weather Service Los Angeles showing jurisdiction on land (gray) and sea (purple)
NOAA Weather Radio
The National Weather Service Los Angeles forecast office provides programming for eight
NOAA Weather Radio stations.
[4]
City of license
Call sign
Frequency (
MHz )
Power
Service area of transmitter
San Luis Obispo
KIH31
162.550 MHz
330 watts
Los Angeles CA
Santa Barbara
KIH34
162.400 MHz
330 watts
Los Angeles CA
Malibu Marine
KWL22
162.425 MHz
300 watts
Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles
KWO37
162.550 MHz
300 watts
Los Angeles CA
Avalon
WNG584
162.525 MHz
100 watts
Los Angeles CA
San Simeon
WNG592
162.525 MHz
100 watts
Los Angeles CA
Santa Barbara Marine
WWF62
162.475 MHz
100 watts
Los Angeles CA
Sandberg
WZ2505
162.425 MHz
100 watts
Los Angeles CA
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