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A significant weather advisory was a hazardous weather statement issued by certain Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States to alert the public of thunderstorm activity that is below designated severe criteria for and/or is not expected to produce severe weather.
An example of weather alerts on a national map from the National Weather Service. The NWS divides severe weather alerts into several types of hazardous/hydrologic events: Severe local storms – Short-fused, small-scale hazardous weather or hydrologic events produced by thunderstorms (including large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, and flash ...
PDS tornado warnings are currently issued on an experimental basis by the 38 National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices within the Central Region. [17] The criteria for a PDS warning are when a tornado on the ground has been spotted or confirmed, or a significant tornado is expected based on radar signatures.
The National Weather Service office in Albuquerque warned of the possibility of heavy snow, with totals ranging between 5 and 10 inches above 8,000 feet, up to a foot across the highest peaks and ...
For millions of us, winter weather has already started. As the winds howl, the snow flies and the temperatures drop, the National Weather Service issues various levels of alerts for wintry weather ...
A National Weather Service forecast warned, “this should be considered a generational winter storm event and its impacts should be taken seriously.” Travel could be snarled for days
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A high risk severe weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for convective weather events in the United States. On the scale from one to five, a high risk is a level five; thus, high risks are issued only when forecasters at the SPC are confident of a major severe weather outbreak.