Quad Cities - NOAA Weather Radio

Local Area Stations:

Tone Alert Tests

A tone alert test is conducted on all area transmitters every Wednesday between 11 am and noon, (but usually right around 11am). In case of severe weather, the test will be postponed until the next available non-severe weather day (still at 11 am).

FIPS Codes for S.A.M.E. Radios

Area FIPS Codes
All of Iowa
All of Illinois
All of Missouri
Entire United States

Understanding FIPS codes and Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME)

For toll-free EAS/SAME Information - call
1-888-NWR SAME

The Voice of the National Weather Service

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History of NOAA Weather Radio

NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts began in the 1950s when the old Weather Bureau started broadcasting aviation weather on two stations. In the 1960s, stations were added for the marine community, and by the late 1970s, the system included more than 300 stations. Partially driven by the Super Outbreak of April 1974, a January 1975 White House policy statement designated NOAA Weather Radio as the sole government-operated radio system to provide direct warnings into private homes for both natural disasters and nuclear attack. Now more than 1025 transmitters provide coverage to most of the Nation's population.

Partnerships between the National Weather Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the FCC, private industry and state and local governments have expanded NOAA Weather Radio into an "all-hazards" network. All-hazards broadcasts air warning information on earthquakes, volcano activity, and other natural and man-made hazardous conditions (such as a HAZMAT spill), and are used for communicating relief information after such disasters.

Related Links

Local Weather Radio Fact Sheets

(each around 115kb pdf )

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