Local Weather Service

Dixon Weather Service, Missouri

Providing “potentially life-saving” weather info to Central Missouri

Central Missouri is fortunate to have Dixon Weather Service - “the most reliable source of weather information for Dixon.” This not-for-profit organization offers local weather information along with National Weather Service (NWS) watches and warnings.

As administrator Tim Brandt says, “Our mission is to provide the citizens of the Dixon, MO area a source to obtain the most accurate, real time and potentially life saving weather warnings as issued by the NWS."

Organization members also chase storms, document weather related events within 50 miles of Dixon, and function as a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). As a certified SKYWARN agency, Dixon Weather reports severe weather events to the NWS.

“We are using a Capricorn 2000 model weather station with all standard sensors plus the optional visibility sensor. We even have a heated rainfall collector for the numerous freezing or frozen precipitation events we have here each cool season,” Brandt explains. “The Capricorn is used to monitor and record the real time weather data as measured by the sensors here in downtown Dixon, and we provide the current surface weather conditions to NWS, state government, local government, life flight helicopter, schools, citizens, various users, etc."

Their system also offers free email or text messages to pagers or cell phones when severe weather threatens.