Critical Fire Weather in the Plains; Severe Thunderstorms in the Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes

Anomalously warm, dry and breezy conditions will bring elevated to critical fire weather conditions across portions of the Intermountain West into the central and southern Plains today. Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across portions of the upper Mississippi River Valley to the Great Lakes tonight through the day Tuesday. Damaging gusts, hail, and heavy rainfall are likely. Read More >

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on Wednesday Oct 3, 2018. This test will simulate a Presidential Alert message. The National Weather Service in Seattle will participate in the EAS portion of this test, relaying the National Periodic Test (NPT) message across the NOAA Weather Radio network in Western Washington. Please note that NOAA Weather Radios with Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) receiving capabilities that are set up to alert for NPT messages will alarm for this test as will tone-alert radios.

The WEA portion of this test will commence at 11:18 AM PDT.
The EAS portion of this test will commence at 11:20 AM PDT.

For more detailed information on this national test, please visit: https://www.fema.gov/Emergency-Alert-Test

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Critical Fire Weather in the Plains; Severe Thunderstorms in the Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes

National Wireless Emergency Alert & Emergency Alert System Test - October 3, 2018