About Skywarn - Radio Shack PRO-162 User Manual

itself into FIPS programming mode. If the scanner is set to alert for all FIPS, ALLFIPS
appears on the display. If the scanner is set to alert only the area you have programmed, 1
of the FEPS memory number and FIPS code appears.
2. Press or to change the displayed FIPS code from 0 to 14. If a FIPS code is not
programmed, ------- appears.
3. Use the keypad to enter the FIPS code. Press CL to cancel an inputted FIPS code.
4. Press ENT/PGM to store the FIPS code. Press 0 then ENT/PGM to clear a FIPS code.
------ appears. If an invalid value has been inputted, the FIPS code is cleared.
5. To set the scanner so it alerts you when you receive any FIPS code, press or to
move ALLFIPS. Then press ENT/PGM. Then go to Program Mode.
6. To set to alert only for the area you have programmed, press or to move 0 to 14,
then press ENT/PGM. Then go to Program Mode.
Skywarn
The Skywarn function lets you jump directly to the last channel in memory (Bank39#49)
from any mode by press and holding WX/ . The scanner goes into manual mode and
starts receiving transmissions in the last channel when WX/ is entered. Before using this
feature, enter the local Skywarn frequency for your area into Bank39#49. If no frequency is
programmed in the last channel, "Skywarn Freq. is not stored" appears and the scanner
sounds an error tone.
The scanner has 10 channels for skywarn (bank39ch#40-49). Press or to select the
skywarn channel only, then press MAN to exit skywarn.

about Skywarn

Skywarn is an organized group of trained weather observers. A Skywarn group exists in
virtually every US County with a significant population. During inclement weather, reports
made by Skywarn observers include information about:
• Pea-sized and larger hail
• Wind and wind gusts of 40 MPH and greater
• Heavy rainfall
• Lightning (cloud-to-cloud and especially cloud-to-ground)
• Wall clouds seen in severe thunderstorms (which spawn tornadoes)
• Severe lowering of a wall cloud
• Turbulence in a wall cloud
• Funnel clouds
• Tornadoes
• High water areas
• Downed power lines
• Other emergency conditions that affect life or property
Listen to NOAA for weather alerts and warnings, watch box notices, and weather-forecasts.
Listen to Skywarn to hear trained observers in your vicinity call i n official reports to a net
control station which relays those reports to NOAA and other emergency agencies.
Note: If you tune to a Skywarn frequency when the Skywarn net is not active, you may hear
nothing, or you may hear amateur radio operators talking on a local repeater system.
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