NOAA Weather Radio National Weather Service Northern Indiana

Henry County is now part of the Angola transmitter's broadcast area!

         Is a NWR station off the air?  Did you not receive the Wednesday tone alert test? (Tone alert tests are performed every Wednesday between 11am and noon...unless there's a threat of severe weather, in which case it's postponed until the first good-weather day.)  Questions and comments concerning the NOAA Weather Radio program can be sent to iwx.nwr@noaa.gov, or you can call 1-888-886-1227 (see http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/outages.html).

January 2004:  NOAA Weather Radio given Special Award by the American Meteorological Society for immeasurable contributions to personal and community safety and quality of life by providing real-time forecasts and warnings directly to homes and meeting places.

The National Weather Service office at Northern Indiana is responsible for programming five transmitters within our County Warning Forecast Area(CWFA). These transmitters are located in South Bend, Fort Wayne, Marion, Angola, and North Webster. Some of the counties within our CWFA are also within listening range of five other transmitters around the area. These are located in Yeoman (Monticello) IN, Cridersville (Lima) OH, Toledo OH, Onondaga MI, and Oshtemo MI. These ten transmitters provide complete coverage of our CWFA.

Local SAME and ZONE codes

Revised EAS code list (for SAME-enabled radios)

New national NWR brochure

NOAA Weather Radio for people with special needs

Information on local NWR programming

Audio -- listen to NOAA Weather Radio via the Internet!

NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) is the official voice of the National Weather Service. As such, it is important that the NWR broadcasts adhere to the highest standards of timeliness, completeness and accuracy. The objective of NWR is to provide a continuous flow of timely and accurate weather and hydrologic information directly to listeners in the service area of the NWR transmitters.

Each transmitter has a normal range of 35 to 40 miles, but with high quality receiver and antennas, the signal can be picked up at greater distances. The broadcasts can be heard on special weather radio receivers programmed to pick up frequencies between 162.400 and 162.550 MHz, and on scanners with a special weather band. Weather radios can be purchased at most electronic stores and average between $20 and $70.

One of the most beneficial features of NWR is that when a severe weather warning is issued by the National Weather Service in your area, a tone alarm is also transmitted so that your weather radio will put out an audible alert to notify you that a severe weather warning will follow. In addition, NOAA Weather Radios are now being equipped with a new technology called SAME, which stands for Specific Area Message Encoder. This will allow you to program your weather radio to alarm only for the counties that you select.

Information on the new NWR computer voices

Hear Bill Kurtis discuss NOAA Weather Radio

For more background information on NWR, check out the national NWR Brochure  or our local NWR Brochure (.pdf documents, must have Adobe Acrobat Reader).

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