While all weather radios will report ALL weather warnings broadcasted by the National Weather Service, some Weather Radios come with Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) capability that when programmed with the appropriate Federal Information and Processing Standards (FIPS Code) will set off an alarm for any warnings specific to your area (County). The NWS weather radios at our repeater sites only alert for events that impact DuPage County.
The FIPS codes for DuPage and surrounding Counties are: |
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DuPage | 017043 |
Kane | 017089 |
Kendall | 017093 |
Cook | 017031 |
Will | 017197 |
NWS Reporting Reference | |
NWS Direct Line: 800-681-2972 | |
NWS EchoLink: Node Number 293451 |
Here are some useful links & contacts... |
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