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Rare Southern U.S. Winter Storm; Dangerous Cold Weather For Much of the Eastern U.S.; Critical Fire Weather for Southern California

A rare winter storm impacting the Southern U.S. will move offshore Wednesday morning. Behind the storm, arctic air will continue encompassing the eastern two-thirds of the Nation with only a slow return to normal temperatures expected by the end of the week. Moderate to strong Santa Ana winds and low humidity will maintain Critical fire weather conditions in southern California into Thursday. Read More >

Various Alert Receivers

INTERNET

SATELLITE

RADIO

E-MAIL

TELEPHONE

TELEVISION

Used to receive the local  EAS

RCA AlertGuard TV

 

 

NWR built-in

 

 

Auto-tune to Channel Broadcast

Yes; English and Spanish text and voice; tone alert, and channel switch to selected weather channel for more information.

NOAA Weather Radio  (NWR) Receivers  (162.400 MHz – 162.550 MHz)

 

 

7-frequencies; Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) within 40 miles of NWR tower

 

 

 

Yes; can activate flashers and bed shakers for critical alerts and warnings .

NOAA Weather Wire Service (NWWS) over computer

XMPP Software and filter

Novra DVB-S2 Satellite Receiver system;

C-band  1.8m dish or larger

 

Some software has the capability to send e-mail notifications upon receipt of particular message type or outage.

Some software has the capability to call a number when a particular product is received.

 

Yes; some software has the capability  for a tone alert for product receipt or system outages.

NWS API over computer User Created or
Commercial solution
           
NWS Chat over computer Restricted Access            
iNWS over computer Restricted Access       Restricted Access 

SMS text messaging

   

Commercial Telephone Applications

Depends on software

There may be a service fee or cost

Depends on software

Depends on software

Depends on software

 

Yes

Commercial Software Applications

There may be a service fee or cost

There may be a service fee or cost

Depends on software

 

 

 

 

Yes

iPhone/Android

There may be a service fee or cost

There may be a service fee or cost

Depends on software

Depends on software

Depends on software

 

Yes

Blackberry

There may be a service fee or cost

There may be a service fee or cost

Depends on software

 

Depends on software

Depends on software

 

Yes

Personal Computers

(other software/ applications)

NWWS-OI, NWS FTP Anonymous, other applications

NWWS-PID201, EMWIN; other satellite applications for GOES products.  May require a satellite dish.

Depends on software

Depends on software

Depends on software

 

 

Yes

 

See DISSEMINATION for other available options