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What's the difference between weather warnings and watches? What is an advisory? Here are weather safety terms you need to know.
Stay Weather Ready: Continue to follow local news or listen to a NOAA Weather Radio to stay updated about watches and warnings. At Your House: Go to your secure location, like the basement or ...
The article primarily defines precise meanings and associated criteria for nearly all weather warnings, watches, advisories, statements, and other products not associated with hazardous weather issued by the NWS and its sub-organizations (some of which may be specific to certain cities or regions).
Different types of alerts from the National Weather Service — from advisories to watches and warnings — mean different things and call for different actions from the public to keep safe.
A weather warning generally refers to an alert issued by a meteorological agency to warn citizens of approaching dangerous weather.A weather watch, on the other hand, typically refers to an alert issued to indicate that conditions are favorable for the development of dangerous weather patterns, although the dangerous weather conditions themselves are not currently present.
Special Weather Statements are free form statements that are typically used to describe weather hazards that cannot be described by another watch, warning, or advisory; is not hazardous enough to warrant issuing a watch or warning; or to warn the public of a potentially hazardous weather event in the long term forecast. [1]
A brief teaching on the difference between a severe weather watch and warning, plus the National Weather Service predictions for storms this afternoon
Local Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service may issue a Special Weather Statement to alert of a specified hazard that is approaching or below warning or advisory criteria, that does not have a specific alert product code of their own (such as for widespread funnel clouds with limited to no threat of complete tornadogenesis, the likelihood of landspouts, or strong ...