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NOAA Weather Radios
Why does your home need a Weather Radio?
Emergencies and disasters can strike anyone, anytime and anywhere. They can happen quickly and without warning and can force you to evacuate your neighborhood or confine you to your home.
Family’s can-and-do cope with disaster by preparing in advance and working together as a team. Along with creating a family disaster plan, and developing a disaster supply kit, installing a Weather Radio in your home is an excellent way to prepare for an emergency.
How do Weather Radios work?
The new generations of Weather Radios are very user friendly. The units can be programmed to send alerts for just your county or tone your county and surrounding counties. NWR provides 24 hour broadcasts of local weather information and warnings of severe weather specific to each of its broadcast locations. The NWR program also has the distinction of providing warning information for any and all hazards that may affect the communities served by local NWR broadcasts, as well as warnings that are disseminated on a state and/or national level. The scope of the all hazards warnings include both natural and man made situations that would mandate notification and/or advisories to citizens in the broadcast area. State and national warnings also include terrorist activity and/or situations of civil unrest. The warning situations mentioned herein are not all inclusive but go to defining the scope of the warning responsibilities of NWR.
Where can you purchase a Weather Radio?
For more information or to order a Weather Radio, please contact Madison County EMA at (740) 852-4200. Many retail stores, including electronic stores, department stores, and sporting goods stores carry NOAA Weather Radios and range in price from $19 to $60.
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