That's 1,000 times more powerful than any other privately owned broadcast radar in the Houston area. Power is extremely important to the radar's capability to see into and through approaching storm cells with clarity. Power is essential. More power means far more capability.
Power delivers more storm-penetrating distance and better data.
High-powered radar delivers better resolution, which is very important in tracking storms as close as the city street and neighborhood level. This provides a very narrow beam width of energy projected out from the radar. The beam width is .95 degrees. Doppler radar is a real-time Doppler radar. The data is available to KHOU meteorologists the minute it is collected.