Back-to-Back Pacific Storms to Impact the West Coast; Heavy Snow in the Central Appalachians

Back-to-back powerful Pacific storm systems to impact the Pacific Northwest and northern California through the end of this week with heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and higher elevation mountain snow. A strong, long-duration atmospheric river will accompany the Pacific storms, bringing excessive rainfall and flash flooding to southwest Oregon and northwest California through the week. 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.
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

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Back-to-Back Pacific Storms to Impact the West Coast; Heavy Snow in the Central Appalachians

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