Winter Storm Shifting From the Central U.S. to the Northeast; Severe Thunderstorms in the South

A winter storm will track to the Lower Mississippi River Valley by Monday and across the central Appalachians Monday night to southern New England by Tuesday. A swath of snow, sleet and freezing rain will spread from the Central Plains east into southern New England by Monday and Tuesday. Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and tornadoes are possible over the northern Gulf Coast on Monday. Read More >

NWR Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME)

Detailed SAME System Specification (pdf file)

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Explanation of NWR and SAME

How the NWR SAME system works
How you can program your new NWR SAME receiver with this code
SAME codes for states, counties, and territories
SAME codes for message types
NWS implementations of FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) code changes and / or SAME location code changes
InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) 31 – 2009, Information technology - Codes for the Identification of Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas

NWR service to a county depends on reliable signal reception, which typically extends in about a 40 mile radius from the transmitter, assuming level terrain. Counties without NWR coverage or partial NWR coverage are indicated. Some counties or parts of counties, especially in mountainous areas, may not have reliable reception due to signal blockages or excessive distance from the transmitter.

NWR RSS Feed

Winter Storm Shifting From the Central U.S. to the Northeast; Severe Thunderstorms in the South

NWR SAME

NWR Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME)

Explanation of NWR and SAME