Protect yourself and your family from disasters! During an emergency, it might be several days before vital services are restored. NOAA emergency alert weather radios activate to provide you with immediate information about life threatening events, giving you extra time to prepare and evacuate if necessary.
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General Information on NOAA Weather Radio
NOAA Weather Radio is a Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U. S. Department of Commerce. As the "Voice of the National Weather Service," it provides continuous broadcasts of the latest weather information from local National Weather Service Offices.
Weather messages are repeated every 4 to 6 minutes and are routinely updated every 1 to 3 hours or more frequently in rapidly changing local weather. Most stations operate 24 hours daily.
The regular broadcasts are specifically tailored to the weather information needs of the people within the service area of the transmitter. Other specialized information, such as hydrological forecasts and climatological data are also broadcast.
During severe weather, National Weather Service broadcasters can interrupt the routine weather broadcasts and insert special warning messages concerning imminent threats to life and property. The broadcaster can also add special signals to warnings that will trigger "alerting" features on especially equipped receivers.
Codes for your area: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm
Codes for your area: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm
- NOAA Weather Radio serves as an alerting device for any life-threatening emergency, whether it's weather-related or not. NOAA Weather Radio, also called NOAA All-Hazards Radio, broadcasts information on chemical spills, forest fires, and terrorist attacks, in addition to weather hazards.
- Some types of NOAA Weather Radios, called SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) receivers, can be programmed to sound alerts for only the county or counties that you specify. This eliminates alerts that are for distant counties of no interest to you.
- Across the United States, NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts from over 400 FM transmitters on seven frequencies in the VHF band, ranging from 162.400 to 162.550 megahertz (MHz). The Paducah National Weather Service office now operates a total of eleven NOAA Weather Radio transmitters. The map below indicates the approximate coverage area of each transmitter, along with the frequency and call sign. The color shades in each transmitter area are not intended to depict actual transmitter signal coverage.
NOAA Weather Radio Q&A
- When is the weather radio alarm tested? The NOAA Weather Radio alarm is routinely tested each Wednesday between the hours of 10 A.M. and noon, weather permitting. On the first Wednesday of each month, the alarm is also tested between 6 and 7:30 P.M. In the event of severe weather, the test is postponed until the first available good weather day.
- How do I report a problem or outage with the radio transmitter in my area? Please contact us after visiting the NOAA Weather Radio outage website.
- What is the advantage of having a computer synthesized voice instead of a human voice on the weather radio? Check here for the how's and why's of the Console Replacement System (CRS) and its automated voice technology.
- What can I hear on NOAA Weather Radio? Check our NOAA Weather Radio program guide for what information we broadcast and when we broadcast it.
- Where can I find the county codes for programming my new NOAA Weather Radio with SAME (Specific Area Message Encoder) capability? For the county codes for programming your receiver, click here for more information. (source NOAA)
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