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Senate bill would fund access to private radar data to fill Minnesota 'radar gaps'
Summary
Senate File 530 would fund access to supplemental radar data from private providers and make that data available to state agencies, local emergency managers and PSAPs to address low‑level coverage gaps in several Minnesota regions; committee heard personal testimony about a fatal incident missed in a radar gap.
Senate File 530, heard March 10, would fund access to supplemental weather-radar data to address “radar gaps” where National Weather Service Doppler beams fail to sample low-level storms. The bill (with an author's A1 amendment adopted in committee) would support a competitive procurement for private radar data and then make that data available to specified state agencies, county emergency managers and public-safety answering points.
Senator Kupik, the bill author, described geographic…
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