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BY GARY WELCH "The station has been approved "We will pre -empt regular broad -
Complete 24 -hour weather in- way the it,- s efforts ke Canglo Casey said. of eHail, severe ainshand
formation will be available to Brazos County Civil Defense direc- high winds are examples of severe
Bryan - College Station area resi- tor and chairman. He said an exact weather.
dents for the first time next spring. construction site and completion The NWS has trarrsfrrrcd the re-
A broadcast station, recently ap- date have not been determined, but sponsibility for disseminating
proved by the National Weather the antenna should start going up weather warnings in Brazos, Leon,
Service (NWS), will broadcast at 162 sometime after January. Madison and Robertson counties
MHZ with a 40 to 50 mile range, "Routine broadcasts will be put from the Houston office to the Waco
said Doyle Casey, official in charge on tape by the Waco weather serv- office, he said. The ' switch became
of the NWS office in Waco. It will ice and transmitted by phone to the effective Last Tuesday-.
be located in College Station and broadcast station," Canglose said. "W took a survey of the area and
will provide weather warnings, and "The tapes will be updated every found out that more of the people
routine marine, agricultural and hour, but at any time they can break were listening to and watching
weather forecasts. into the tape and issue warnings." Waco stations than Houston' "
s,
Casey said. "Fewer people were
paying attention to Houston stations
because Houston is so far away.
Since we rely on radio and televi-
sion to get the information to the
public, we felt that we could get
more to the public if we put it on the
stations they were listening to and
watching.
Casey said the transferred re-
sponsibility had a slight effect on
College Station's broadcast station.
• The Waco NWS weather radar
has a 280 -mile range.
"The radar covers College Station
well," Casey said. "It will even pick
up light weather in that area."