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Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East; Severe Storm Threat in the Gulf States Sunday

A significant winter storm is underway, bringing widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday. Extremely cold air will follow, prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Severe thunderstorms may produce damaging gusts and tornadoes across the eastern Gulf Coast states Sunday morning and afternoon. Read More >

EAS Digital Code Product List for the Baltimore-Washington Weather Forecast Office Broadcast Service Area

 

The following products will include a 1050 Hz tone-alert and SAME (digital coding) :

  • Tornado Watch - TOA
  • Tornado Warning - TOR
  • Severe Thunderstorm Watch - SVA
  • Severe Thunderstorm Warning - SVR
  • Special Marine Warning - SMW
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  • Flash Flood Watch - FFA
  • Flash Flood Warning - FFW
  • Flood Warning - FLW
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  • Tropical Storm Watch - TRA
  • Tropical Storm Warning - TRW
  • Hurricane Watch - HUA
  • Hurricane Warning - HUW
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  • Winter Storm Warning - WSW
  • Blizzard Warning - BZW
  • Snow Squall Warning - SQW
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  • High Wind Warnings - HWW
  • Coastal Flood Warning - CFW
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  • Civil Danger Warning - CDW
  • Civil Emergency Message - CEM
  • Emergency Action Notification - EAN
  • Earthquake Warning - EQW
  • Alarmed Eviction Warning - EVI
  • Fire Warning - FRW
  • Hazardous Materials Warning - HMW
  • Local Area Emergency - LAE
  • Law Enforcement Warning - LEW
  • Nuclear Power Plant Warning - NUW
  • Radiological Hazard Warning - RHW
  • Shelter in Place Warning - SPW
  • 911 Telephone Emergency Outage - TOE
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  • Weekly Test Message - RWT