NOAA Weather Radio
NOAA Weather Radio can help save your life...
NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts National Weather Service warnings, watches, forecasts, and other hazard information 24 hours a day.
Weather radios equipped with a special alarm tone feature can sound an alert and give immediate information about a life- threatening situation, even when you are asleep.
Weather radios come in many sizes and with a variety of functions and costs; from simple, battery- operated portables, to CB radios, scanners, and shortwave sets.
SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) technology, a new feature in the NOAA Weather Radio system, lets listeners pre- select the National Weather Service alerts they want to receive, based on the county where they live.
NOAA Weather Radios are available at electronics stores across the country.
The hearing and visually impaired can receive watches and warnings by connecting weather radios alarm tones to other kinds of attention- getting devices, like strobe lights, pagers, bed- shakers, personal computers, and text printers.
There are more than 570 NOAA Weather Radio stations in the 50 states and near adjacent coastal waters, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands, and U. S. Pacific Territories.
NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts watches when conditions are favorable for severe weather, and warnings when the occurrence of severe weather is imminent.
NOAA Weather Radio is available in many coastal and wilderness areas, as well as highways and rest areas.
NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts warnings, as well as post- event information for all types of hazards, both natural (such as earthquakes, tornadoes, or volcanic activity) and technological (such as chemical releases or oil spills).
The goal of the National Weather Service and other emergency preparedness agencies is to expand the reach of weather radio broadcasts to 95 percent of the U. S. population.
The audio you hear on local cable weather radar channels is typically a rebroadcast of NOAA Weather Radio.
NOAA Weather Radio is provided as a public service by the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Comic strip character Mark Trail supports NOAA’s efforts to make NOAA Weather Radio receivers as common as smoke detectors in homes, offices and public gathering places.