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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC
215 PM EDT FRI SEP 12 1997
TO: NOAA WEATHER RADIO /NWR/ LISTENERS
FROM: DONALD R. WERNLY...CHIEF...CUSTOMER SERVICE
SUBJECT: NWR INFORMATION...INCLUDING SPECIFIC AREA MESSAGE
ENCODING /SAME/...NOW AVAILABLE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
INFORMATION ON NWR-SAME AND NWR SIGNAL COVERAGE AREAS IS NOW
AVAILABLE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT THE FOLLOWING URL:
HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/NWR /LOWER CASE/
THIS INFORMATION CONTAINS AN EXPLANATION OF NWR AND NWR-SAME
OPERATIONS...AND PROVIDES A NATIONWIDE DATABASE THAT INCLUDES
NWR-SAME CODES AND TRANSMITTER LOCATIONS AND FREQUENCIES FOR ALL
COUNTIES AND PARISHES /INCLUDING EQUIVALENT AREAS/ COVERED BY
EXISTING NWR STATIONS.
THE SIX-DIGIT NWR-SAME CODE IS AN IMPORTANT NEW WARNING SERVICE
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. IT WILL ALLOW AN OWNER OF THE
NEW NWR-SAME RECEIVER TO PROGRAM IT TO RECEIVE URGENT WEATHER AND
NON-WEATHER RELATED BROADCAST MESSAGES ONLY FOR THE COUNTY/S/ OF
HIS OR HER CHOOSING. THIS WILL PREVENT A LISTENER...FOR
EXAMPLE...FROM BEING AWAKENED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITH
ALERTS THAT DON/T APPLY TO HIS OR HER AREA OF INTEREST. THIS
NWR-SAME TECHNOLOGY CAN ELIMINATE THE APPEARANCE OF OVERWARNING.
PLEASE SEE INFORMATION FROM THE MANUFACTURER OF YOUR NWR-SAME
RECEIVER FOR SPECIFIC PROGRAMMING INSTRUCTIONS.
PLEASE CHECK THIS WEB SITE PERIODICALLY FOR BULLETINS ON
REVISIONS TO THIS NWR DATABASE...INCLUDING THE ADDITION OF NEW
NWR TRANSMITTERS...CHANGES TO NWR COVERAGE AREAS...CHANGES TO
NWR-SAME CODES AND ANY OTHER CORRECTIONS.
Linda Miller
External Liaison Telephone: (303) 497-8646
UCAR/Unidata Program Center Fax: (303) 497-8690
P.O. Box 3000 E-mail: lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boulder, CO 80307-3000 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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