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Statement – A statement is either issued as a follow-up message to a warning, watch, or emergency, that may update, extend, or cancel the message it is following up or a notification of significant weather for which no type of advisory, watch, or warning exists. [65]
What's the difference between weather warnings and watches? What is an advisory? Here are weather safety terms you need to know.
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.
Here's what to know about the differences between a severe weather watch or warning from the National Weather Service.
A watch or warning bearing the phrase is referred to as a PDS watch or PDS warning. First used by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), a national guidance center of the National Weather Service, for tornado watches, the phrase was later applied to other severe weather watches and warnings by the agency's regional
Tropical weather watches and warnings As an inland city, Charlotte isn’t in the crosshairs of tropical weather as often as some of the Carolinas’ more coastal regions.
References to the "significant weather advisory" and "significant weather alert" terms in First Warning—a broadcast weather alert system derived for use by local television stations—and its derivatives vary by station and market; in most cases, the system's various iterations classify the product by generic thunderstorm-specific terms that ...
An excessive heat warning, the highest alert level on a four-tier scale, means everyone needs to take precautions to stay safe in the heat because "you may become seriously ill or even die," the ...