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An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA, formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), and prior to that as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN)), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to mobile devices such as ...
Hazardous weather outlook. Heat advisory. Heavy freezing spray warning. Heavy freezing spray watch. Heavy snow warning. History of Atlantic hurricane warnings. Hong Kong rainstorm warning signals. Hong Kong tropical cyclone warning signals. HURCON.
A severe thunderstorm warning indicates the warned area is in impending danger from hail or wind speeds meeting warning criteria as well as from lightning and hydrological impacts associated with the storm cell. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce tornadoes without warning. [ 2] While not all severe thunderstorms produce ...
Unlock advanced, hyperlocal severe weather alerts when you subscribe to Premium+ on the AccuWeather app. AccuWeather Alerts™ are prompted by our expert meteorologists who monitor and analyze ...
When severe weather looms, storm alerts are important tools for keeping people informed. The National Weather Service shares alerts as it warns of potential risks from thunderstorms, flooding ...
How to turn on weather alerts on an Android device. Android Authority says the short answer is to long-press the Weather app. Go to App info, then Notifications, then Weather alert to enable ...
Significant weather advisory. 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.
Here's what to know about the differences between a severe weather watch or warning from the National Weather Service.