EMWIN - Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
The Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) is spreading rapidly across the country. There are five VHF
stations broadcasting in Oklahoma now, with more coming on line every month. Our site plan, with frequencies already
assigned, calls for a total of at least 15 in Oklahoma alone.
The rapid growth results from the availability of the signal on the GOES satellites at NO COST to users, and high quality
download equipment at reasonable prices. The National Weather Service Southern Region office has just purchased the
SkyWalker/Wilmanco system from us, to be used by the Tulsa Forecast office in a demonstration project on Cavanal
Mountain in eastern Oklahoma. That station will cover a large area in Oklahoma as well as Fort Smith and the surrounding
country in Arkansas. The National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Maryland, after extensive testing of several
packages, has purchased two more units from us, one for Hawaii and one for Puerto Rico. Our equipment also feeds
the Tulsa and Miami, Oklahoma stations.
If you would like to have a complete update on everything that is happening in the EMWIN world, check out the
EMWIN page on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's web site.
We are contacting all of the SkyWarn locations that have an internet presence. We'd appreciate it if you would let your
local Emergency Management people know how to find our site. We believe you will all find it useful.
Jack Long
SkyWalker Data Systems
7303 W. 35th Street
Tulsa, OK 74107
918-445-1488
