What is National Weather Service?
{{Infobox Government agency | agency_name = National Weather Service | logo = US-NationalWeatherService-Logo.svg | logo_width= 200px | formed = {{Start date and age|1870|02|09}} | preceding1 = {{nowrap|United States Weather Bureau}} | preceding2 = | dissolved = | superseding = | jurisdiction = [[Federal government of the United States|United States federal government]] | headquarters = [[Silver Spring, Maryland]]<br>{{coord|38|59|30|N|77|01|48|W|region:US-DC_type:landmark_source:kolossus-dewiki|display=inline,title}} | budget = [[US$]]1,124,149,000 ([[Fiscal year#Federal government|FY]] 2016) | chief1_name = Louis Uccellini | chief1_position = Director | parent_agency = [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] | child1_agency = [[National Centers for Environmental Prediction]] | keydocument1 = {{USStat|16|369}} | website = {{URL|https://www.weather.gov/}} | footnotes = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weather.gov/timeline|title=History of the National Weather Service|website=National Weather Service|access-date=July 2, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Guide to Federal Records: Records of the Weather Bureau|url=https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/027.html |publisher=National Archives and Records Administration|accessdate=May 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weather.gov/about|title=About NOAA's National Weather Service}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corporateservices.noaa.gov/nbo/fy17_bluebook/FY17_BB_Final_508.pdf#page=30|title=FY 2017 Budget Summary|year=2016|publisher=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]|format=PDF|page=53|access-date=2019-06-05|archive-date=2018-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819071856/http://www.corporateservices.noaa.gov/nbo/fy17_bluebook/FY17_BB_Final_508.pdf#page=30|url-status=dead}}</ref> }} The '''National Weather Service''' (also known as '''NWS''') is one of the six [[science|scientific]] [[agency|agencies]] that make up the [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] (NOAA) of the [[United