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National Weather Service Shreveport, Louisiana

Types	branch
Location	Shreveport
Country	United States
Coordinates	32°27′04″N 93°50′30″W
Website	www.weather.gov/shv/

National Weather Service - Shreveport, LA (SHV) is one of 122 weather forecast offices around the United States. It is responsible for issuing public and aviation forecasts and warning for South Central and Southwestern Arkansas, Southeastern Oklahoma, and Eastern and Northeastern Texas Counties, as well as for North Central and Northwestern Louisiana Parishes. It is co-located with a weather radar (KSHV) of the NEXRAD network and an upper air sounding facility. It controls the issuance of weather information and bulletins on a certain number of NOAA Weather Radio.

NWS Team

• Meteorologist-in-Charge (MIC) – Mario D. Valverde
• Administrative Support Assistant (ASA) – Jason Wtatt
• Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) – William (Bill ) Parker
• Science and Operations Officer (SOO) – Cynthia Palmer
• Electronic Systems Administrator (ESA) – Michael Waddell
• Information Technology Officer (ITO) – Matthew Duplantis
• Service Hydrologist – C. S. Ross
• Observations Program Leader – Aaron Stevens
• 5 Senior Forecasters
• 5 Journeymen Forecasters
• 2 Meteorological Interns
• 2 Electronics Technicians

NOAA Weather Radio Stations Programmed by this office

Callsign	Cities	Frequency	Region
WXJ65	Broken Bow, OK.	162.470 MHz	McCurtain County
WNG650	Center, TX.	162.525 MHz	Shelby County
KWN32	Gilmer, TX.	162.425 MHz	Upshur County
WXK23	Lufkin, TX.	162.550 MHz	Lufkin-Nagocdoches
WXJ96	Monroe, LA.	162.550 MHz	Monroe-Ruston
WNG725	El Dorado, AR.	162.525 MHz	El Dorado
WXN87	Natchitoches, LA.	162.500 MHz	Southeast Ark-La-Tex
WXJ97	Shreveport, LA.	162.400 MHz	Ark-La-Tex
WXJ49	Texarkana, TX.	162.550 MHz	Texarkana metropolitan area
WXK36	Tyler, TX.	162.475 MHz	East Texas
WNG653	Marietta, TX.	162.525 MHz	Atlanta-Linden