NOUS41
KWBC 031401
PNSWSH
Public
Information Statement, External Statement
National
Weather Service Headquarters
1000 AM
EDT Fri Jun 3, 2011
TO: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information
Network
-NOAAPORT
-Other NWS Partners, Users, and
Employees
FROM: Office of Communications
National Weather Service
SUBJECT:
Clarification on Sources of Weather Information
NWS,
part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration has no association with the Southern California Weather
Authority or with Mr. Kevin Martin or any other staff of the Southern
California Weather Authority. Weather
forecast and warning products developed and distributed by Mr. Martin or the
Southern California Weather Authority may have formatting or contain content
that could visually be confused with that of the National Weather Service. Regardless of formatting or content, Mr.
Martin’s weather products have no connection with nor are they the products of
the National Weather Service.
NWS is
the sole official voice of the U.S. Government for warnings of hazardous
weather, including tornadoes, hurricanes, winter storms, floods and
others. NWS encourages the media and
others to distribute NWS warnings and other hazardous weather products widely
to aid public safety.
NWS
also respects the rights of individuals, companies, and other organizations to
produce weather information of their own and to use NWS information to help
them do so, including those who choose to produce weather information regarding
weather hazards; however, it is important to distinguish official products that
are produced and issued by the National Weather Service from weather information
produced by others that is NOT produced by NWS. It is especially important to avoid any confusion between NWS warnings and
those that might be produced by others.
For
more information regarding terms of use of NWS information, see http://www.weather.gov/disclaimer.php
If you
have comments or questions regarding this public information statement, please
contact:
NWS Communications Office
nws.communications.office@noaa.gov
National
public information statements are online:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
$$
NNNN
|