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Extremists Threaten Further Attacks on Weather Radars Over Debunked Flood Conspiracies

NOAA has partnered with local law enforcement to fortify remote radar sites after a vandal disabled the Oklahoma City system.

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Overview

  • Investigators are reviewing CCTV footage showing a man who damaged the News 9 NextGen Live Radar power supply and cameras in Oklahoma City, but no arrests have been made.
  • Veterans on Patrol leader Michael Meyer has invoked “Operation Lone Wolf” to rally followers to disable radar and satellite systems after alleging weather weapons caused the Texas floods.
  • NOAA alerted staff nationwide about threats to NEXRAD installations and is coordinating security upgrades and surveillance with local authorities to protect vital severe-weather detection networks.
  • Atmospheric scientists including Matt Lanza have reiterated that cloud seeding cannot trigger floods of the magnitude seen in Texas and that radars only observe weather patterns.
  • Conspiracy narratives amplified by right-wing influencers and GOP lawmakers have driven harassment and death threats against meteorologists and cloud-seeding executives such as Rainmaker founder Augustus Doricko.