NOAA Weather Radio Page
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About NOAA Weather Radio...
NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts National Weather Service warnings, watches, forecasts, and other hazard information 24 hours a day. Known as the voice of the National Weather Service, NOAA Weather Radio is provided as a public service by the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The NOAA Weather Radio network has more than 425 stations in the 50 states and near adjacent coastal waters, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and U.S. Pacific Territories. In southeast Michigan, broadcasts originating from the White Lake office are transmitted on two NOAA Weather Radio stations. Station KIH-29 broadcasts on a frequency of 162.475MHz from a transmitter located in Clio. This station serves the counties of Midland, Bay, Huron, Saginaw, Tuscola, Sanilac, Shiawassee, Genesee, and Lapeer. The other station, KEC-63, broadcasts on a frequency of 162.550MHz from a transmitter located in Southfield. KEC-63 serves the counties of Livingston, Oakland, Macomb, St. Clair, Washtenaw, Wayne, Lenawee, and Monroe.
NOAA Weather Radio Schedule for Mid Michigan
We broadcast the daily climate summaries, travelers forecast and the marine forecasts over NWR at specific times (and onlyat these times) in an attempt to shorten the length of our broadcast cycles. The length of the broadcast cycle runs from near 8 minutes during busy times and less than 3 minutes during lull periods. We broadcast these products as follows:
HOURLY WEATHER The hourly weather observations from selected cities across the area play every cycle.
LOCAL FORECASTS The short term forecast is grouped by counties and the extended forecast out to 7 days, plays every cycle.
TRAVELERS FORECAST At 5:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM, the next day and second day forecast for selected cities across the region with predominate weather along with Highs and Lows.
DAILY CLIMATE SUMMARIES Climate information from the previous day for Detroit and Flint at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour from 4 AM until 10:30 AM each morning.
MARINE FORECASTS (OPEN LAKE AND NEAR SHORE) Complete forecasts (five days for the open lake, two days for the near shore) play at the top of every hour. Otherwise the first 24 hours of the forecast plays approximately every ten minutes. The Open Lake forecasts for Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie are issued at 4 AM, 10 AM, 4 PM and 10 PM. The Near Shore forecast is issued during the boating season at 5 AM, 11 AM, 5 PM, and 11 PM.
LATE AFTERNOON CLIMATE UPDATE At 530 PM and every 30 minutes through 9 PM, the high, low and amount of precipitation through 5 PM are played for Detroit and Flint.
The above schedule will be truncated during periods of severe weather. In addition, we will conduct a test of the public warning alarm system each Wednesday between 11 am and 1 pm. If there is a threat of severe weather, the test will be postponed until the next available clear weather day.
