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  2. Tropical cyclone warnings and watches - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Tropical cyclone warnings and watches are alerts issued by national weather forecasting bodies to coastal areas threatened by the imminent approach of a tropical cyclone of tropical storm or hurricane intensity. They are notices to the local population and civil authorities to make appropriate preparation for the cyclone, including ...

  3. National Weather Service - Wikipedia

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    The product provides a graphical depiction of short-fuse warnings and watches (specifically, tornado and severe thunderstorm watches and warnings, and flash flood warnings), showing a map of the warning area (outlined as a red polygon) and locations (including communities and interstate highways) that will be impacted.

  4. Severe weather terminology (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Severe thunderstorm warning (SVR) – A severe thunderstorm is indicated by Doppler weather radar or sighted by Skywarn spotters or other persons, such as local law enforcement. A severe thunderstorm contains large damaging hail of 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter or larger, and/or damaging winds of 58 mph (93 km/h) or greater.

  5. What’s the difference between a watch and a warning? What ...

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    The difference between tornado watches and warnings is similar to severe thunderstorms. A tornado watch means “severe thunderstorms and tornadoes are possible in and near the watch area ...

  6. History of Atlantic hurricane warnings - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish–American War led to the United States establishing a hurricane warning office in Kingston, Jamaica in 1898, before shifting to Havana, Cuba after the war's end in 1899. [4] After the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, a hurricane warning office was established at New Orleans, Louisiana to deal with hurricane warnings in the Gulf of Mexico. [5]

  7. Storm watches and warnings: What the alerts mean when ... - AOL

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    Generally, a warning covers a smaller geographic area and comes when the threat is more “imminent,” McClatchy News reported. For example, the weather service puts out a tornado watch “when ...

  8. National Hurricane Center - Wikipedia

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    www.nhc.noaa.gov. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is the division of the United States' NOAA / National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting tropical weather systems between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific Ocean and the 31st parallel north in the ...

  9. Storm Prediction Center - Wikipedia

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    Watch outline products provide a visual map depiction of the issued watch; the SPC typically delineates watches within this product in the form of "boxes," which technically are represented as either squares, rectangles (horizontal or vertical) or parallelograms depending on the area it covers. Jurisdictions outlined by the county-based watch ...

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