Boone County Amateur Radio Emergency Service

BCARES - WX0BC

K0SI repeater 146.760 - pl 127.3 Columbia, Missouri

Missouri ARES
Missouri SEMA
Boone County FPD
Boone County Red Cross
Mid-Missouri Skywarn

Boone
WX0BC Weather in Downtown Columbia, MO
Sanborn Field, University of Missouri Campus, Boone County, MO
Bradford Farm, University of Missouri on Rangeline Rd. at Vemers Ford Rd. (Only updated hourly)
Callaway
Williamsburg, Callaway County, MO

Other Mid-Missouri Weather Stations
FindU
MesoWest - local weather map (click on station)

National Weather Service, for Columbia MO
National Weather Service, experimential radar inferface
WeatherBonk, Google Weather inferface
Missouri Radar
Recent Midwest Earthquakes
Missouri Streamflow
Missouri Lighting Strikes
US Lighting Strikes

BCARES Forms
BCARES Maps
BCARES High Point Maps
BCARES Yahoo Group

BCARES Past Events
BCARES Officers

The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) in Missouri provides emergency communications to "Served Agencies" such as the Office of Emergency Management, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the National Weather Service, hospitals, and others as agreed in each county. The 114 Missouri counties and the City of Saint Louis are grouped into nine ARES® districts. Many ARES® teams also provide communications for public service events such as marathons, parades, bike riding events, and boat races. The FCC prohibits any Amateur Radio Operator from accepting payment for these services.

News	Club Meetings Club Meeting are held on the first Tuesday of each month at the Country Kitchen Restaurant just north of I-70 on Providence in Columbia, MO at 6:30 pm.

Communications Emergency Prepareness Tips

The National Weather Service provides continous Weather Radio for Boone County on: Jamestown, KWN-55, 162.425 Mhz, Ch-4 Fulton, WXL-45, 162.400 MHz, Ch-2	Many of these radios can be programmed to be in sleep mode and turn on when the weather service sends a weather alert. For more Emergency Preparedness Tips
The Red Cross has many Distaster Preparedness Publications.	Boone County Tornado History The following link is the the NWS Tornado Climatology webpage selecting Boone County. Another interest page is a map of all tornados in the St. Louis County Warning Area of the NWS. For links to these and many other tornado statistics for the St. Louis County Warning Area of the National Weather service see St. Louis County Warning Area Tornado Climatology.

Created February 5, 2005
Last Updated: August 2, 2009