Alert Description Table; Noaa Message Table - First Alert Public Alert WX-268 User Manual

Alert Description Table:

At the factory, your radio has been programmed with some alerts Blocked (B) as noted
below. In addition, some NOAA alerts are Unblockable (UB) as noted below. To block
additional events, see the Event Blocking instructions on page 19.
Code (Blocking Message
status)
ADR (B) Administrative message
AVA Avalanche Watch
AVW Avalanche Warning
BHW (UB) Biological Hazard Warning
BWW Boil Water Warning
BZW Blizzard Warning
CAE Child Abduction Emergency
CDW (UB) Civil Danger Warning
CEM (UB) Civil Emergency Message
CFA Coastal Flood Watch
CFW Coastal Flood Warning
CHW (UB) Chemical Hazard Warning
CWW (UB) Contaminated Water Warning
DEW (UB) Contagious Disease Warning
DBA Dam Watch
DBW (UB) Dam Break Warning
DMO (B) Practice/Demo
DSW Dust Storm Warning
EAN (UB) Emergency Action Notification
EAT (UB) Emergency Action Termination
EQW (UB) Earthquake Warning
EVI (UB) Immediate Evacuation
EVA Evacuation Watch
FCW (UB) Food Contamination Warning
FFA Flash Flood Watch
FFS Flash Flood Advisory
FFW Flash Flood Warning
The table below lists the alerts broadcast by NOAA and EAS.
Code (Blocking
status)
FLA
Flood Watch
FLS
Flood Advisory
FLW
Flood Warning
FRW
Fire Warning
FSW
Flash Freeze Warning
FZW
Freeze Warning
HMW
(UB) Hazardous Mat. Warning
HLS
Hurricane Advisory
HUA
Hurricane Watch
HUW
(UB) Hurricane Warning
HWA
High Wind Watch
HWW
High Wind Warning
IBW
Iceberg Warning
IFW
(UB) Industrial Fire Warning
LAE
(UB) Local Area Emergency
LEW
(UB) Law Enforcement Warning
LSW
(UB) Land Slide Warning
NAT
(B) National Audible Test
NIC
(B) National Information Center
NMN
(B) Network Notification Message
NPT
(B) National Periodic Test
NST
(B) National Silent Test
NUW
(UB) Nuclear Plant Warning
POS
Power Outage Advisory
RHW
(UB) Radiological Haz. Warning
RMT
(B) Required Monthly Test
RWT
(B) Required Weekly Test
Code (Blocking
Message
SMW
SPS
SPW
SVA
SVR
SVS
TOA
TOE
TOR
TRA
TRW
TSA
TSW
TXB
TXF
TXO
TXP
VOW
WFW
WFA
WSA
WSW
??A
??E
??S
??W
Message
status)
Special Marine Warning
Special Weather Advisory
(UB) Shelter In-Place Warning
Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Severe Weather Advisory
Tornado Watch
911 Telephone Outage
(UB) Tornado Warning
Tropical Storm Watch
(UB) Tropical Storm Warning
(UB) Tsunami Watch
(UB) Tsunami Warning
(B) Transmitter Backup On
(B) Transmitter Carrieer On
(B) Transmitter Carrier Off
(B) Transmitter Primary On
(UB) Volcano Warning
Wild Fire Watch
(UB) Wild Fire Warning
Winter Storm Watch
Winter Storm Warning
Unrecognized Watch
Unrecognized Advisory
Unrecognized Emergency
(UB) Unrecognized Warning
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