State College, PA

Weather Forecast Office

NOAA Weather Radio

State College Office Stations/Transmitters

Station ID	Station	State
WNG589	Altoona	PA
WNG591	Coudersport	PA
WWG51	Warren	PA
WWG52	Huntingdon	PA
WXL40	Harrisburg	PA
WXL52	Clearfield	PA
WXL55	Williamsport	PA
WXM33	Johnstown	PA
WXM59	State College	PA
WXM94	Wellsboro	PA

NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) is a nationwide network of radio stations broadcasting continuous weather information directly from the nearest National Weather Service office. NWR broadcasts official Weather Service warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Working with the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) Emergency Alert System, NWR is an "All Hazards" radio network, making it your single source for comprehensive weather and emergency information. In conjunction with Federal, State, and Local Emergency Managers and other public officials, NWR also broadcasts warning and post-event information for all types of hazards – including natural (such as earthquakes or avalanches), environmental (such as chemical releases or oil spills), and public safety (such as AMBER alerts or 911 Telephone outages).

Known as the "Voice of NOAA's National Weather Service," NWR is provided as a public service by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), part of the Department of Commerce. NWR includes more than 1000 transmitters, covering all 50 states, adjacent coastal waters, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Pacific Territories. NWR requires a special radio receiver or scanner capable of picking up the signal. Broadcasts are found in the VHF public service band at these seven frequencies (MHz):

162.400

162.425

162.450

162.475

162.500

162.525

162.550

Radios that receive our broadcasts are available at a variety of electronics stores. Some of these radios can be set to sound an alarm tone when a warning is issued for your area! Police scanners can tune to the weather radio frequencies as well.

The radio tone-alerting feature (via a 1050Hz tone broadcast) is tested each Wednesday morning (usually between 11am and Noon), unless there is Severe Weather occurring or imminent, in which case, the tests will be postponed to the first available fair weather day.

Newer radios can be programmed to alert you only when you wish to be alerted. This technology uses individual Federal Information Processing System codes (FIPs Codes) to discern when to sound the alert tone. The Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME ) system has been in use by the National Weather Service to alert emergency officials and the Emergency Alert System (EAS) for over five years.

A National Web Page will show you the FIPs Codes for all of PA. There is also a toll-free number you can call to get this same information. It is : 1-888-NWR-SAME (1-888-697-7263).

General Broadcast Suite

Flooding Suite

Convective Suite

Played every day

Station ID

State Weather Summary

Hourly Observations

7-day Forecasts

Daily Climate Summary

Monthly Climate Summary

Hazardous Weather Outlook

Played as needed

Severe Thunderstorm Watch

Tornado Watch

*** Blizzard Warning

*** Ice Storm Warning

Winter Storm Watch

*** Winter Storm Warning

Winter Weather Advisory

Civil Emergency

Routine Weekly Test

High Wind Watch

*** High Wind Warning

Wind Advisory

Dense Fog Advisory

Cold Weather Advisory

Extreme Cold Watch

Extreme Cold Warning

Excessive Heat Watch

Excessive Heat Warning

Heat Advisory

Freeze Watch

Freeze Warning

Frost Advisory

*** Flood Watch

Flood Warning

Flood Statement

Special Weather Statement

Public Information Statement

Local Storm Report

Tropical Statement

Played when flooding is occurring or forecast to occur

Station ID

Hourly Observations

7-day Forecasts

Played as needed

*** Flood Watch

Flood Warning

Tornado Watch

Severe Thunderstorm Watch

*** Blizzard Warning

*** Ice Storm Warning

Winter Storm Watch

*** Winter Storm Warning

Winter Weather Advisory

Civil Emergency

Flood Statement

High Wind Watch

*** High Wind Warning

Wind Advisory

Cold Weather Advisory

Extreme Cold Watch

Extreme Cold Warning

Dense Fog Advisory

Excessive Heat Watch

Excessive Heat Warning

Heat Advisory

Freeze Watch

Freeze Warning

Frost Advisory

Public Information Statement

Local Storm Report

Tropical Statements

Lake Effect Snow Watch

Lake Effect Snow Warning

Played when Severe Thunderstorms or Tornadoes or Snow Squalls are occurring or forecast to be possible

Tornado Watch

Tornado Warning

Severe Thunderstorm Watch

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

Severe Weather Statement

Special Weather Statement

Flash Flood Warning

Flash Flood Statement

Flood Statement

Snow Squall Warning

Civil Emergency

Local Storm Report

**Automated Tone Alerts**
Bold-face products are SAME and 1050Hz TONE-alerted
* Special Tone-Alert Rules: There are special rules for tone-alerting some of our products (noted with *). These products are tone alerted whenever: the product is first issued, the area for which the product is in effect has expanded, the time for which the product is in effect has been extended. Also, there is a blackout period from midnight until 7:00 am when these products will NOT be tone-alerted immediately. If these products are issued between midnight and 7:00 am you will receive a tone-alert at 7:00 am.

Tropical System
Bounding Box

The red box approximates the area where the center of a tropical cyclone must be located for the information to be played on the NOAA Weather Radios broadcast from our local office. The latitude and longitude pairs of the corners of the box are:

43N, 91W; 43N, 70W; 25N, 70W; and 25N, 90W

NOAA Weather Radio

State College Office Stations/Transmitters

Tropical System Bounding Box

Tropical System
Bounding Box