“Our team worked diligently to manage the entire restoration process, from the purchase of major components and contracting with specially trained crews, to deployment of our expert technicians to complete the installation and check-out of the system,” said Terrance Clark, Radar Operations Center director. These efforts included working 65 feet above ground with heavy equipment weighing more than 8,000 pounds. All of the equipment inside the radome, including the antenna and pedestal, were replaced, along with repairs to the tower, fence, and equipment shelters. Since September, contractors and technicians from the NEXRAD Radar Operations Center in Norman, Oklahoma, worked to repair and replace damaged radar parts. The radar was restored in just five months, nearly two months ahead of schedule, at a cost of $1.65 million. “We are thankful to have the radar online before the peak of severe weather this spring.” “Weather radar imagery is flowing again, feeding weather forecasts and warnings and bringing back important public safety infrastructure to our Lake Charles community,” said Roger Erickson, warning coordination meteorologist, Lake Charles Weather Forecast Office. Category 4 winds from Hurricane Laura significantly damaged the radar, making it inoperable on August 27, 2020. JanuToday, the National Weather Service restored service to the weather radar serving southwest Louisiana and northwest Gulf of Mexico. Radar ready to track active weather, spring storms Lake Charles weather radar back online after Hurricane Laura damage
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