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About NOAA, NWS, & S.A.M.E. County Codes
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About NOAA, NWS, & S.A.M.E. County Codes
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In 1994, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began
broadcasting coded emergency signals that identify the specific geographic area
(such as the county within a state) that is affected by an emergency. Until that
time such specific emergency weather information was not available directly to
the public. NOAA transmits the coded emergency signals using a technique
called Specific Area Message Encoding (S.A.M.E.) The Alert Works EAR-10
Emergency Alert Weather Radio is designed to receive these S.A.M.E. county
code transmissions.
The National Weather Service divides the United States by state and county (or
parish) and assigns a six digit code number called a Federal Information
Processing System (FIPS) code, also known as a S.A.M.E. county code.
You can program the Alert Works EAR-10 Emergency Alert Weather Radio with
up to 25 S.A.M.E. county codes. The weather radio allows you to receive
broadcast alerts for your own county, and/or up to 25 other counties. This will
eliminate the broadcast of any alerts that are not within your area of interest.
When you program your S.A.M.E. county code(s) into the weather radio, you
eliminate any alerts that are not within those counties. Warnings, watches and
statements of weather and other area emergencies ─ about 50 different types ─
will activate the weather radio for only your programmed area(s).
The S.A.M.E. message the NWS sends contains information pertaining to the
period for which the alert is valid. NWS can set the active time of the alert from
15 minutes to 6 hours. When the designated time has passed, the weather radio
display message and light will automatically reset to their normal appearance.
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