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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.
Different types of alerts from the National Weather Service — from advisories to watches and warnings — mean different things and call for different actions from the public to keep safe.
Get a weather alert on your phone or TV? Here’s what they actually mean.
The National Weather Service shares alerts as it warns of potential risks from thunderstorms, flooding, tornadoes and other dangers. But when forecasters issue a watch or a warning for a specific ...
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 typically used to make the public aware of a potentially high impact weather event in the long range and so a watch or warning is not yet necessary. Unlike watches, warnings, and advisories, Special Weather Statements are more free form and have no formal requirement to be issued, updated, or ended.
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