About Skywarn

Scanning

Note: Before using this feature, enter the local Skywarn frequency for your area into Bank 9, Channel 19. (See “Programming Frequencies into Channels.”)

The scanner has 10 channels for Skywarn: Bank 9, Channels 10-19. Press T or S to select other Skywarn channels. Press SCAN/MAN to exit Skywarn.

Note: If no frequencies are programmed in the Skywarn channels, No

Prg appears and the scanner sounds an error tone.

Skywarn is an organized group of trained weather observers. A Skywarn group exists in virtually every US County with a signiﬁcant population. During inclement weather, reports made by Skywarn observers include information about:

•Pea-sized and larger hail

•Wind and wind gusts of 40 MPH and greater

•Heavy rainfall

•Lightning (cloud-to-cloud and especially cloud-to-ground)

•Wall clouds seen in severe thunderstorms (which spawn tornadoes)

•Severe lowering of a wall cloud

•Turbulence in a wall cloud

•Funnel clouds

•Tornadoes

•High water areas

•Downed power lines

•Other emergency conditions that affect life or property

Listen to NOAA for weather alerts and warnings, watch box notices, and weather-forecasts. Listen to Skywarn to hear trained observers in your vicinity call in ofﬁcial reports to a net control station which relays those reports to NOAA and other emergency agencies.

Note: If you tune to a Skywarn frequency when the Skywarn net is not active, you may hear nothing, or you may hear amateur radio operators talking on a local repeater system.