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National Weather Service Mobile/Pensacola

👁 Radar tower behind the Mobile NWS Office
The Weather Forecast Office (WFO) located at the Mobile Regional Airport in West Mobile is one of 122 field offices of the National Weather Service (NWS). The NWS is an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The NWS was previously known as the "U.S. Weather Bureau" until the early 1970s. Before it was the "Weather Bureau", the agency was part of the Signal Corps.

The office in Mobile was originally located downtown in 1870 as part of the Signal Service. In 1934, it was moved to the old Bates Field (now Brookley Field). The office stayed there until 1941 when it moved to the old terminal building of Bates Field (a.k.a. Mobile Regional Airport). Under the modernization of the NWS, the office moved into its present-day location just off Airport Boulevard on the southeast side of Mobile Regional Airport (under the "big white ball") in 1994. More information on the history of our office!

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👁 WFO Mobile and Surrounding Offices

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