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The National Severe Weather Warning Service (shortened to NSWWS) is a service provided by the Met Office in the United Kingdom. The purpose of this service is to warn the public and emergency responders of severe or hazardous weather which has the potential to cause danger to life or widespread disruption.
Mosaic radar loop of the supercell that produced a mile-wide EF2 tornado near Custer City on May 19. On May 19, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) outlined a level 4/Moderate risk of severe weather across southwest to central Kansas, encompassed by a level 3/Enhanced risk that extended into northwestern Oklahoma as well.
See Severe weather terminology (United States) and/or Severe weather terminology (Canada) for comprehensive articles concerning specific nations' warnings, watches, advisories and related terms. Pages in category "Weather warnings and advisories"
A tsunami warning system (TWS) is used to detect tsunamis in advance and issue the warnings to prevent loss of life and damage to property. It is made up of two equally important components: a network of sensors to detect tsunamis and a communications infrastructure to issue timely alarms to permit evacuation of the coastal areas.
Watches and warnings. This subsection should be placed within a level-3 heading (===Watches and warnings===) under Current storm information and it should contain a table listing the areas currently under some sort of tropical cyclone advisory. Additionally, any hazards listed by the RSMC may be optionally listed, as in the example below.
It depends on the conutry responsible for that part of the ocean. NWS uses tropical storm warning and hurricane warning. Japan uses gale warning, storm warning and typhoon warning. Fiji, Australia and New Zealand uses gale warning, storm warning and hurricane warning.Momoko 07:36, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
A flood warning is closely linked to the task of flood forecasting.The distinction between the two is that the outcome of flood forecasting is a set of forecast time-profiles of channel flows or river levels at various locations, while "flood warning" is the task of making use of these forecasts to make decisions about whether warnings of floods should be issued to the general public or ...
In some regions, tsunami sirens are used to help alert the public. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), located on Ford Island, Hawaii, is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea.