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Title:
Proposed Changes to Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) Wording for Snow Squall Warnings
Category:
Experimental-M
Status:
Comment Period ended
Service Area:
Winter
Entered:
2020-03-17
Type:
Product
Data (Obs/Forecast/verification)
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Model
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Scope:
Alaska Region
Central Region
Eastern Region
Western Region
Description
The National Weather Service (NWS) is requesting comments on proposed changes to Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) wording for Snow Squall Warnings (SQW) until May 1 2020. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule changes allow for the expansion of Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) from the existing maximum of 90 characters to a maximum of 360 characters. NWS is soliciting feedback on both the proposed expansion of Snow Squall Warnings to use the new 360 character maximum and the proposed content of the NWS Snow Squall Warning messages in English and Spanish carried by WEA through May 1. The NWS will provide messages to WEA for hazards believed to be life-threatening and that have consequences that can be mitigated or minimized by immediate action. For more detailed information on National Weather Service WEA messages, please refer to Service Change Notice 19-43: https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/scn19-43wea_360aac.pdf
Tags
Product information and survey access
Point of Contact
Michael Muccilli michael.muccilli@noaa.gov
Document (e.g. PDD)
PDD_Proposed_WEA_SnowSquallWarnings_2020.pdf
Example file:
(OPTIONAL) If you have a sample image, please upload.
Product URL(s):
Comments via:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ProposedWEASnowSquallWarnings
Comment Start Date:
2020-04-22 Comment End Date: 2020-07-01
Experimental
Notification:
PNS20-26; https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pns20-26proposed_wea_sqw.pdf
Decision information
Deciding Official:
Andy Stern
Decision:
Decision Date:
0000-00-00
Decision Document:
Operational
Notification:
ID:838
Last edit date to this meta-data: 2020-09-15
