Severe thunderstorms are expected from central Texas to middle Tennessee and Kentucky this afternoon into tonight. Large hail and damaging winds are the main threats. Heavy to excessive rainfall may produce areas of flooding today and tonight from central Texas into the lower Mississippi Valley.
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WSO Pago Pago is located near the Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa. The office is the only 博体育 office located in the Southern Hemisphere and in the South Pacific.
WSO Pago Pago operates 24 hours a day, providing public weather forecasts and warnings, including coastal advisories and marine forecasts and warnings, in both English and Samoan, while working towards the 博体育 mission of "Protecting Life and Property".
In addition to issuing forecasts and warnings, the WSO Pago Pago office launches weather balloons twice a day to gather information about the upper atmosphere. This information is used by the staff at WSO Pago Pago, and also at other offices across the 博体育 as the information from all balloon launches are incorporated in the various computer models meteorologists use. WSO Pago Pago also monitors for any nearby earthquake/tsunami event that could potentially impact the territory and work closely with the in Honolulu.
During tropical cyclones, WSO Pago Pago works with the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, HI and the , as well as the to issue watches and warnings for American Samoa.
Read about our building dedication on November 3, 2003.
See pictures from our building dedication on November 3, 2003.
Tropical Cyclone Heta (2003/2004 Tropical Season)
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