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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.
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]
High wind watches and warnings may also be issued and mean “sustained winds of 40 mph or higher for one hour or more and/or wind gusts of 58 mph or higher for any duration and possible or ...
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]
Here's what to know about the differences between a severe weather watch or warning from the National Weather Service.
A brief teaching on the difference between a severe weather watch and warning, plus the National Weather Service predictions for storms this afternoon
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