CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — There is a gap in the technology meteorologists use to track severe weather in the Charlotte area. The closest radar used by the National Weather Service is out of the Greenville-Spartanburg area.
“We’re one of those interesting situations where the main office is, you know, roughly about an hour and a half, two-hour drive off to our south and west,” said Queen City News Meteorologist Andrew Brightman. “So we don’t have that doppler radar that’s very close to us.”
While Charlotte Douglas International Airport operates a radar that can track weather in and around the airport, it does not have the strength to fully close the gap.
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“You can only go about 60 or so miles away before it basically becomes useless, because it’s designed just for the airports, not designed to be a whole coverage area,” added Brightman…