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What are Wireless Emergency Alerts? How do they work? What kind of alerts are sent? Who can send them? Read the updated FAQ to learn more about this new service. Safe Boating Week, May 18-24 Dual-pol radar upgrade complete: more accurate weather forecasts and warnings from NOAA technology. Weather-Ready Nation Roadmap 2.0: A path forward for NOAA's National Weather Service. Last year forecasters with NOAA’s National Weather Service in Kansas and Missouri strengthened the messages used in tornado warnings and simplified their format to improve risk communication and public response.

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  • NOAA releases final report of Sandy service assessment
  • NWS Boston provides decision support to Emergency Managers at Boston marathon
  • Forecast for the Future: Assuring the Capacity of the National Weather Service (NAPA)
  • Dual-pol Radar Upgrade Complete
  • Weather-Ready Nation Roadmap 2.0
  • Sandy retired from list of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone names
  • Jetstream - The Online School for Weather
  • Researchers develop method to better predict severity of tornado outbreaks
  • Riding the waves of the future
  • Pilot Projects Help Build a Weather-Ready Nation
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