National Severe Weather Preparedness Week: Stay Tuned for Weather Alerts
Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 10:21AM 
It's day 5 of National Severe Weather Preparedness Week and today's topic is "Stay Tuned for Weather Alerts".
Here is what NOAA.gov says about how to stay tuned for weather alerts:
A NOAA Weather Radio, or NWR, is more than just a radio. It’s a life-saver – broadcasting continuous weather information directly from the nearest NOAA National Weather Service office across a nationwide network of radio stations.
87-year-old Wilma Nelson of Woodward, Okla., recently experienced the power of a NOAA Weather Radio when a devastating tornado struck her town of 12,000.
“I thought, ‘I’d better get out of here,’” she told CBS News, saying that when her NOAA Weather Radio woke her up, she moved quickly into a closet that she had “all prepared” in advance. Nelson’s granddaughter-in-law, Janelle Semmel, said that the advance outlooks and warnings issued by the National Weather Service saved lives. “We took it very seriously, because of the buildup that they had been talking about all week of the chances of storms that we had here,” she said.
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