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Welcome to the National Weather Service Forecast Office |
We'd love to show you around our office. We've created a virtual tour of our facility so you can learn more about what our office does, who works here, and what tools we use to monitor and forecast the weather. To navigate through our online virtual tour, click on the "Next" button at the bottom of the page. First, here is some general information about our facility: |
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 The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is a part of the Department of Commerce. Our office complex is located in the Chanhassen Business Center in the southwest Twin Cities suburb of Chanhassen, about 25 miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis. We moved to our present location in 1995. Before this time our office was located on the grounds of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport at the historic passenger terminal just south of Highway 62.
Our current office is one of the largest National Weather Service buildings in the country. We share this facility with the North Central River Forecast Center and the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. Click on the links in blue above to visit their websites. |
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The National Weather Service (NWS) in Chanhassen has severe weather warning responsibility for 51 counties covering much of southern and central Minnesota and a portion of west central Wisconsin. Click on the map to see a larger picture of our area of responsibility.
Our official mission is to provide weather and flood warnings, public forecasts, and advisories for our area of responsibility, primarily for the protection of life and property. To fulfill our mission, the National Weather Service office in Chanhassen, Minnesota is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with at least one meteorologist and one hydro-meteorological technician on duty. Our online tour will demonstrate how we accomplish this mission locally. |
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We are not the only NWS office in the region. The illustration to the left shows all of the offices that serve Minnesota and Western Wisconsin and the counties covered by each office. Click on the office listed below to go directly to their website:
NWS Sioux Falls To see a map of National Weather Service offices in the United States, click here or on the "NWS Offices" link in the forecast section of the above left-hand navigation menu. |
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