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Midland 74-250 7-channel weather/ all hazards monitor is designed to receive these SAME transmissions.

Your Midland 74-250 can be programmed with up to 9 predefined county/channels that will define which notices broadcast by your local NOAA weather station will cause the radio to alert you. This includes warnings, watches and statements of weather and other area emergencies, about 40 different types.

Also included in the SAME message is the amount of time for which the message is effective. The 74-250 will continue to display the alert until its time expires. In the upper left of the display will be the time the alert was received.

You don’t need to wait for the 74-250 to give you an alert. Just find the NWR station broadcasting to your area from the 7 available channels. You can listen at any time, day or night to the latest weather information from the National Weather Service.

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What is a FIPS Code?

The NWR divides the United States and territories by state and county (or parish) and assigns a six digit code number called a FIPS (Federal Information Processing System) code or also known as a NWR/SAME county code. The first digit identifies subdivision. The next two identify the state or territory, and the last three identify the county. For example the code for Clay county Missouri is 029047. The“047” indicates the county, the “29” indicates the state, and the “0” indicates the subdivision of the county. In this case and most cases the code will have a zero for the first digit, indicating that no subdivision is in use. The NWS plans to introduce subdivisions of some counties in the future, assigning digits 1 through 9 to the parts resulting in codes like 529047.