NOAA Weather Radio

NOAA Weather Radio was established in select cities during the 1950's and Nationwide during the 1970's. It is a network of radio stations broadcasting continuous weather information from nearby National Weather Service offices. In addition to weather alerts they may broadcast alerts concerning National Security, Environmental and other public service alerts.

These broadcasts operate on one of the following frequencies

162.400 MHz

162.425 MHz

162.450 MHz

162.475 MHz

162.500 MHz

162.525 MHz

162.550 MHz

I consider it prudent for all households to have a weather radio of some type in the home. Preferably it would be of the type that is battery operated so as to be useful in the event of electrical outages. Most modern scanners include a Weather search that will allow you to find one or more NWS stations in your area.

See the following for more detail information:
NOAA National Weather Service
NOAA Weather Radio article on Wikipedia

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