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Atop an 80-foot tower, on a hill just southwest of Moore, sits the 4 Warn Doppler radar, the claimed epitome of Doppler radar in Oklahoma and it belongs to Oklahoma's NewsChannel 4. With an antenna that is 14-feet across bearing four times the power of its cousin in northwest Oklahoma City, it's designed to see storms more clearly.
It has a million watts of power and that's important because up until the advent of this new radar, all existing television radars in the Oklahoma City metro area had only 250,000 watts, said Mike Morgan, chief meteorologist for NewsChannel 4. That's still good radar, but it doesn't have the storm-seeking ability as a million- watt radar does. This Doppler can see more clearly in every part of the state, anywhere in Oklahoma, even beyond our borders for that matter.