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Stay Informed '. NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards(NWR)is the prime National Weather Service(NWS)delivery system of All Hazard s alerts and critical information directly to the general public. NWR broadcasts warnings,watches,forecasts and other hazard information 24 hours a day.Known as the"voice of the NWS",the NWR network includes 1000 transmitters covering all 50 states,adjacent coastal waters,Puerto Rico,the U.S.Virgin Islands and the U.S.Pacific Territories. The National Weather Service in Honolulu,HI, Weather Radio operates NWR transmitters and repeaters on Kauai, Oahu,Maui,and the Big Island. The complex terrain of the islands makes reception of the NWR NOAA National Weather Service signal difficult in some areas. Forthe locations TM and frequencies used in Hawaii,please visit the NWS Honolulu website at: www.weather.gov/hawaii and click on NOAA Weather Radio link. Most weather radio receivers are equipped with a Emergency Managers special alarm tone feature that will sound day or night when a warning or watch is issued for your area,giving Weather Information you immediate information about potentially life- threatening situations.Newer weather radios use Special Network Alert Message Encoding(SAME),which allows you to specify the particular area(normally a county or group The Emergency Managers Weather Information Network of counties)for which you wish to receive alerts.Some (EMWIN)offers an economical way to receive all products weather radio receivers allow people with hearing and available on NWWS,plus graphical forecasts and select visually impaired to connect devices such as strobe satellite data.For details,go to: lights,pagers,bed-shakers,personal computers and http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/index.htm. text printers. NWS encourages people to buy a weather radio receiver which carries the"Public Alert"logo. The"Public Alert" Interactive Weather standard for weather radios was developed by the Consumer Electronics Association in conjunction with Information Network NWS. "Public Alert"certified receivers,produced by several manufacturers,meet several minimum criteria, The Interactive Weather Information Network(IWIN)is a are equipped with SAME and battery backup(useful for Web site with live data similar to EMWIN. It is open to all when the power goes out),and have connections for users and contains warnings in addition to many routine external antennas and the special devices for the hearing NWS products.To view IWIN products,go to: and visually impaired. http://iwm.nws.noaa.gov. More information on NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards and"Public Alert"receivers can be found by contacting your local NWS office or on the Internet at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr. 16