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Areas of Hazardous Weather This Weekend

A series of cold fronts from North Pacific storms will bring periods of gusty winds, low elevation rainfall, and high elevation snow to the Pacific Northwest this weekend into next week. Heavy to excessive rainfall may produce areas of flooding over southern Texas this weekend. 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

See Dissemination for other available options