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  • Twisting Tornado

    "Are you all okay up there, sir?" "I don't know. We'll call you when this thing gets past us. We're taking shelter." This is a conversation between an operational weather squadron and a combat weather team, no one in tornado alley wants to hear. The severe weather season started with a low roar at

  • AFWA gets new commander

    Col. Patrick M. "Mike" Condray assumed command of the Air Force Weather Agency from Col. John M. Lanicci, at a ceremony on Offutt AFB, Neb. June 9. Col. John D. Murphy, Acting Director of Weather, Washington D.C., presided over the ceremony. During his speech, Colonel Murphy said he was proud of

  • Contract awarded to build new Air Force Weather Agency Headquarters

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced this week that the Kiewit Building Group Inc, based in Omaha, Neb., will build the new Headquarters Air Force Weather Agency facility here with a ground breaking ceremony scheduled for March 24, 2006. The $27 million military construction contract award

  • Weather Group re-activates, joins team

    The stage is set for big changes in Air Force weather forecasting across the United States. By aligning stateside weather operations with the Air Force warfighting initiative, Air Force weather is creating a more efficient and effective organizational structure to support the mission and the

  • 1st Weather Group stands-up

    The 1st Weather Group reactivated to continue its long and decorated history of providing weather products and service to Air Force and Army units in a ceremony held here May 25. The group is now part of the Air Force Weather Agency. "The changes will be seamless to the warfighter - they will still

  • Weather forecasters provide support in Kosovo

    When some people want to start a conversation with a stranger or someone they have not seen for a while, they may ask the long-standing question, "What do you think of the weather?" As weather forecasters, a small group of Airmen deployed to Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo take the question one step

  • AFWA monitors record solar flare

    A large group of sunspots is being tracked by Air Force Weather Agency space weather technicians here. Over the next few days, weather technicians are forecasting moderate to extreme solar flares resulting in possible geomagnetic storms. Heightened solar activity creates peaks in solar emissions

  • AFWA NCO wins award

    If you ask him, he owes everything to everyone. If you ask him, he is just proud to serve in the United States Air Force. If you ask him, he is just another average Airman. But if you've had the pleasure to meet him he is anything but average . He is Staff Sgt. Jay Sablan, Air Force Weather Agency