National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office
Los Angeles
Agency overview
TypeMeteorological
JurisdictionNational Weather Service
Headquarters520 North Elevar Street
Oxnard, CA 93030
34.2071, -119.1377
Employees28
Agency executives
  • Mark Jackson, Meteorologist in Charge
  • John Dumas, Science Operations Officer
  • Eric Boldt, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
Parent agencyNational Weather Service
Websitewww.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 licenseCall signFrequency (MHz)Power Service area of transmitter
San Luis ObispoKIH31162.550 MHz330 wattsLos Angeles CA
Santa BarbaraKIH34162.400 MHz330 wattsLos Angeles CA
Malibu MarineKWL22162.425 MHz300 wattsLos Angeles CA
Los AngelesKWO37162.550 MHz300 wattsLos Angeles CA
AvalonWNG584162.525 MHz100 wattsLos Angeles CA
San SimeonWNG592162.525 MHz100 wattsLos Angeles CA
Santa Barbara MarineWWF62162.475 MHz100 wattsLos Angeles CA
SandbergWZ2505162.425 MHz100 wattsLos Angeles CA

References

  1. ↑ US Department of Commerce, NOAA. "Oxnard Weather Office". www.weather.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  2. ↑ Covarrubias, Amanda (2016-06-22). "In a quiet Oxnard office, National Weather Service meteorologists are calm before the storm". Ventura County Star. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  3. 1 2 3 "Weather Bureau/National Weather Service History in California" (PDF). weather.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  4. ↑ "NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio". NOAA.
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