Editing National Weather Service (section)

{{Short description|U.S. forecasting agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration}}
{{Redirect|Weather Bureau||Meteorological Administration (disambiguation){{!}}Meteorological Administration}}
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| agency_name     = National Weather Service
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| logo            = US-NationalWeatherService-Logo.svg
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| formed          = {{Start date and age|1870|02|09}}
| preceding1      = {{nowrap|United States Weather Bureau}}
| preceding2      = {{nowrap|U.S. Army Signal Service}}
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| jurisdiction    = [[Federal government of the United States|United States federal government]]
| headquarters    = [[Silver Spring, Maryland]]<br />{{coord|38|59|30|N|77|01|48|W|region:US-DC_type:landmark_source:kolossus-dewiki|display=inline,title}}
| employees       = 4,900<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.noaa.gov/weather | title=Weather &#124; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | website=noaa.gov }}</ref>
| budget          = [[US$]]1.364 billion ([[Fiscal year#Federal government|FY]] 2023)
| chief1_name     = [[Ken Graham]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/kenneth-graham-selected-as-next-director-of-noaas-national-weather-service | title=Kenneth Graham selected as next director of NOAA's National Weather Service &#124; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |website=noaa.gov | date=June 7, 2022 }}</ref>
| chief1_position = Director
| chief2_name     = Michelle Mainelli<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.weather.gov/organization/michelle-mainelli | title=Michelle Mainelli | website=weather.gov}}</ref>
| chief2_position = Deputy Director
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| parent_agency   = [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]
| keydocument1    = {{USStat|16|369}}
| keydocument2    = NWS Strategic Plan<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.weather.gov/media/wrn/NWS-2023-Strategic-Plan.pdf | title=2023-2033 NWS Strategic Plan }}</ref>
| website         = {{URL|https://www.weather.gov|weather.gov}}
| footnotes       = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weather.gov/timeline|title=History of the National Weather Service|website=National Weather Service|access-date=July 2, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Guide to Federal Records: Records of the Weather Bureau|url=https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/027.html |publisher=National Archives and Records Administration|access-date=May 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weather.gov/about|title=About NOAA's National Weather Service}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-27|title=Final FY21 Appropriations: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|url=https://www.aip.org/fyi/2021/final-fy21-appropriations-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration|access-date=2021-03-02|website=aip.org|language=en}}</ref>
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The '''National Weather Service''' ('''NWS''') is an [[Government agency|agency]] of the [[Federal government of the United States|United States federal government]] that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information. It is a part of the [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] (NOAA) branch of the [[United States Department of Commerce|Department of Commerce]], and is headquartered in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]], within the [[Washington metropolitan area]].<ref name="census1">{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US2472450&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on|title=Silver Spring CDP, Maryland|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607190628/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US2472450&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on|archive-date=June 7, 2011|access-date=August 2, 2009}}</ref><ref name="NWSsite">{{cite web|title=NOAA's National Weather Service|url=http://www.nws.noaa.gov/|publisher=National Weather Service|access-date=August 2, 2009}}</ref> The agency was known as the '''United States Weather Bureau''' from 1891 until it adopted its current name in 1970.<ref name="Nass1">{{Cite web |last=Glahn |first=Bob |date=2012 |title=The United States Weather Service: The First 100 Years |url=https://library.oarcloud.noaa.gov/noaa_documents.lib/NOAA_historic_documents/WB/Glahn_NWS_100years_2012.pdf |access-date=10 December 2024 |website=NOAA Central Library}}</ref>

The NWS performs its primary task through a collection of national and regional centers, and 122 local [[List of National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices|Weather Forecast Offices]] (WFOs). As the NWS is an agency of the U.S. federal government, most of its products are in the [[Copyright status of work by the U.S. government|public domain]] and available free of charge.