Works Weatheradio Your How

Ô NOTE Ô

•If the Weatheradio receives more than one weather alert at the same time, it displays information about each alert.

•If you are close to a county line, NWS- assigned subcounty line, or parish line, you might want to obtain the codes for the adjacent counties, sub-counties, or parishes.

•Although the list of FIPS codes programmed into your Weatheradio is up to date as of the time it was manufactured, the NWS periodically des- ignates new codes. If you do not find your county code, subcounty code, or parish code on the FIPS code list, contact the NWS at

1-888-697-7263 to get the current FIPS code for your county, subcounty, or parish.

Type of

Indicator

Recommended Action

Alert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be aware that conditions are

Watch

Yellow

favorable for the described

 

 

weather condition to develop.

 

 

 

 

 

Be aware that conditions could

Statement

Green

become favorable for the described

 

 

weather condition to develop.

 

 

 

WHEN A WEATHER ALERT OCCURS

When the Weatheradio receives a weather alert, it sounds an alert (siren or beep), the alert’s description and duration appear, and an indicator on the front of the Weatheradio lights.

The alert descriptions your Weatheradio can display are based on a list of specific weather alert types published by the NWS. For a list of all the alert descriptions that your Weatheradio can display, see “NWS Weather Alert Descriptions” on Page 26Ô.

Your Weatheradio works with FIPS codes in the following ways:

First

 

 

Digit

 

 

of

Key

Result

FIPS

 

 

Code

 

 

 

 

 

0

All

If programmed, receives all alerts for

counties

a county, including subcounty alerts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If programmed, receives only sub-

1–9

Subcounty

county alerts that match the entered

digit and all-county alerts that start

 

 

with 0.

 

 

 

UNDERSTANDING FIPS CODES

For the purpose of broadcasting weather information, the NWS has divided the United States into regions by state, county and subcounty (or

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