PBC Skywarn Basic & Advanced Spotter Class
April 18th, 2015

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PBC Skywarn Storm Ready Page 

PBC SKYWARN NEWS

This page is to assist you in your storm preparations and 
recovery for and from severe weather. This page contains links to pre-storm, storm and post-storm agencies and services available to you. ___________________________________________________
 NOAA All Hazards Radio

 NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) is a nationwide network of radio stations broadcasting continuous weather information directly from the nearest National Weather Service office. 

NWR broadcasts official Weather Service warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information 24 hours a day, 7 days 
a week.

• What is All Hazards Radio?

• Florida Frequencies  By County

• NationWide Frequencies Across the United States & Territories  

 What Is "SAME ?"  

A new radio capable of receiving NWS broadcasts gives listeners the best possible means of receiving severe weather warnings. This new generation of programmable NWR receivers has a special feature that allows listeners to choose only the watches and warnings that affect their county area and screen out any warnings issued for other counties within broadcast range.

Using digital technology known as Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME), all watches and warnings issued by the NWS are preceded by unique audio codes that describe the type of warning and identify the county or counties being warned. People who own a SAME receiver can pre-select their FIPS codes to ensure they hear the specific warning information they need to make potentially life-saving decisions. Click here to find out the FIPS code for your county.

Older NWR receivers are not affected by the technology change, but the older receivers do not allow listeners to take advantage of the SAME capability to screen alerts for individual counties

    S. Florida All Hazards Radio Frequencies & S.A.M.E Codes 

Note: If using SAME codes, to receive other counties with the same local frequency, you will need to use separate radio entries/banks with assigned SAME codes to that county.

 National Hurricane Preparedness PSA Videos 

    

 These videos cover what you need to know to prepare for Hurricane Season.
 These videos cover:

• Overview of a hurricane

• Storm Surge

• Wind

• Inland Flooding

• Forecast Process

• Get a Plan

• Taking Action

 For videos, click here
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Palm Beach County Storm Preparedness PSA Video
 

 A Public Service Announcement covering:

• Pre-storm Planning

• Pre-storm Preparation

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 Palm Beach County DART Smart phone application. 
 Disaster and Recovery Tool

App enables residents to determine if they reside in an evacuation zone, locate their nearest public shelter, and report damage to their home or business.

Enhancements to the app include the following:

• Grocery and building supply stores with emergency power
• Gas stations equipped with transfer switches
• Immediate access to Palm Beach County Division of Emergency Management’s Twitter feed
• Disaster supplies kit information

PBC DART is available for immediate download at no charge from Apple’s iTunes Store or the Google Marketplace. For additional information on emergency management programs, please visit http://www.pbcgov.com/dem/

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 Palm Beach County Emergency Management
 Hurricane Preparedness  

 This site provides information on

• Preparation

• Safety

• Public Services

• PBC Storm Surge Map

• Shelters-including Special Needs shelters & registration 

        and much more Click Here

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NOAA Extreme Weather Information Sheets (NEWIS). 

Published each year for the Atlantic hurricane season, the NOAA Extreme Weather Information Sheets provide critical information for contacting Federal and local government officials and monitoring information resources

 Visit the site click on your state and select your state section. 

Quick link to South Florida NEWIS Including:

• Broward

• Dade

• Palm Beach

• Monroe
  

Quick Link for SW Florida Including:

• Charlotte

• Collier

• DeSoto

• Glades

• Hendry

• Highlands

• Lee

 Print these Information Sheets keep them with your phone and in you "Hurricane Kit" You can waterproof them by laminating them. You may order a laminated copy by contacting the below contact points or, check with your local NWS offices, libraries, EOC. These are distributed free of charge.

Point of contact: NCDDC@noaa.gov  866.732.2382

Tweets by @PBCSKYWARN

     Lightning Radar

   Interactive Radar

US Weather Maps

       Contact PBC  Skywarn       

Coordinator:
Maurice Dake K9EE
561-374-4249 
mldake@comcast.net 

Assistant Coordinator:
Ray Ruby WX4PBC
561-261-1224    
wx4pbc@yahoo.com

NWS Skywarn WFO Miami
Robert Molleda
305-229-4520    robert.molleda@noaa.gov

Skywarn Repeater:
 147.045   +600  (PL-110.9)

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PBC Channel 20 PSA
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Extreme Weather Information Sheets (NEWIS). 

Published each year for the Atlantic hurricane season, the NOAA Extreme Weather Information Sheets provide critical information for contacting government officials and monitoring information resources

Palm Beach County Disaster Awareness 
and Recovery Tool

For more information click picture

Application can be found at Google MarketPlace & iTune Store

Do not use this site as your sole source for hazardous weather information .

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Webmaster Ray Ruby WX4PBC-PC9084 Copyright 2009-2015