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First Warning is a severe weather warning system designed for broadcast television stations, typically those in the United States. A weather advisory product based on First Warning, called First Alert, is an automated version of this product, which has come into widespread use by television stations and is marketed under different names depending on the graphics service vendor.
WILX-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Onondaga, Michigan, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Lansing area. Owned by Gray Media, the station maintains studios on American Road (near I-96) in Lansing, and its transmitter is located in Onondaga.
WLNM-LD has since operated as a translator of WILX-TV, serving mainly to improve WILX's reception in the few areas of the market without cable or satellite that lost access to the main WILX signal after the digital transition. In June 2024, WLNM moved to a new tower that significantly increased its over-the-air footprint. [5]
See Severe weather terminology (United States) and/or Severe weather terminology (Canada) for comprehensive articles concerning specific nations' warnings, watches, advisories and related terms. Pages in category "Weather warnings and advisories"
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...