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Spring Severe Weather Awareness

Spring Severe Weather Awareness. Severe Weather Awareness. A NOAA All Hazards Warning Radio with SAME programming is an effective tool for getting current weather information Specific Area Messaging Codes Taylor County: 048441 Jones County: 048253

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Spring Severe Weather Awareness

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  1. Spring Severe Weather Awareness

  2. Severe Weather Awareness • A NOAA All Hazards Warning Radio • with SAME programming is an effective • tool for getting current weather • information • Specific Area Messaging Codes • Taylor County: 048441 • Jones County: 048253 • Callahan County: 048059

  3. Severe Weather Awareness Tornado Watch - Watch the sky Tornado Warning – A tornado is on the ground Seek shelter immediately

  4. Severe Weather Awareness • Tornado Safety – Get low and stay low • Seek shelter immediately • Go to an interior room • Leave your mobile home to a designated shelter • Never stay inside a car – leave the car and lie flat in a ravine

  5. Severe Weather Awareness • Flash floods can occur quickly • Avoid flooded areas • Do not attempt to cross flowing • water • If your vehicle stalls, seek • higher ground immediately • Be especially cautious at night • when it is harder to recognize flood dangers

  6. Severe Weather Awareness Never drive around a flood barrier on a road

  7. Severe Weather Awareness • Lightning can strike as far as 10 miles • from the rain area in a thunderstorm • If you can hear thunder, you are within • striking distance of lightning • When you hear thunder, go indoors or • get inside a vehicle

  8. Severe Weather Awareness Do you want us to call you in an emergency? Give us your number today www.abilenetx.com Click on:

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