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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.webmaster@noaa.gov, or you can call 1-888-886-1227 (see http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/outages.html).

Curious to see which NWR transmitter(s) will alert for your county? Click here

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 six transmitters within our County Warning Forecast Area(CWFA). These transmitters are located in South Bend, Fort Wayne, Marion, Angola, North Webster, and LaPorte. Some of the counties within our CWFA are also within listening range of six other transmitters around the area. These are located in Yeoman (Monticello) IN, Cridersville (Lima) OH, Toledo OH, Onondaga MI, Oshtemo MI, and Hebron IN. These twelve transmitters provide complete coverage across our CWFA.

The map below shows the location of each transmitter in our area. Click any transmitter location to see coverage maps. (Or, click on a text link below the map.)

The coverage maps are shown in a three color format, which relates to three estimated signal levels.

White: Signal level of greater than 18dBuV: Reliable coverage
Green: 0dBuV to 18dBuV: picking up a signal is possible but unreliable
Red: Less than 0dBuV: Unlikely to receive a signal

Weather Radio Coverage Map

Oshtemo	Onondaga
South Bend	Angola
Toledo	North Webster
Fort Wayne	Yeoman (Monticello)
Marion	Cridersville (Lima)
Adrian	LaPorte
Hebron

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

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

Questions or Comments on the NOAA Weather Radio Page can be sent to iwx.nwr@noaa.gov

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