UMass CASA

Radar Installation at Addison

This is the fourth radar added in the tornado-prone Dallas/Fort Worth area as part of a collaboration between CASA and the North Central Texas Council of Governments. The radar was built by Enterprise Electronics Corporation and provided to the project by the University of Oklahoma. The following local firms were contracted by the city of Addison to support the installation:

  • Cobb, Fendley & Associates, Inc.
  • Groves Electric
  • Holly Fabrication
  Addison radar liftoff Radar being lowered

  Liftoff and lowering on to roof of Addsion Service Center.

Addison radar on Roof

EEC's Ranger X-1 Radar unit installed on roof.

Addison officials 

Addison City Manager, Ron Whitehead, General Services Director, Mark Acevedo and CASA co-Director, Brenda Philips.

Addison Install Team

Installation Team: Jerry Brotzge (OU), Apoorva Bajaj (UMass Amherst), Don Woods (EEC) and Eric Lyons (UMass Amherst)

 

CASA Team at Addison

Jerry Brotzge (OU), Fred Carr (OU) and Apoorva Bajaj (UMass Amherst)

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