Weather Poll
First Warn Weather Call
How WeatherCall™ Works
An improvement in how the National Weather Service defines warning areas has resulted in significantly higher accuracy and smaller warned areas, compared to the decades-old county-wide warning method. The WeatherCall™ system is continuously monitoring the National Weather Service’s NOAA weatherwire. Using GIS (computerized mapping), the system compares a subscriber's specific location to the location of the warning area. When a severe weather warning includes your location, the system will immediately notify you through telephon e calls, SMS text messaging to your mobile phone, or email that severe weather is in your IMMEDIATE area.
All 578 sq. miles of
tornado warning.
The Doppler radar shows the actual warning area in
the violet box, is approximately 200 square miles.
WeatherCall will only call subscribers located inside this violet box, eliminating false warnings.
All
tornado warnings are delivered by the system.
Subscribers can elect to receive severe thunderstorm and flash flood
warnings, and how they are delivered (phone call or email or both).
Because determining your correct location is so important
with WeatherCall, the system will
assign a latitude and longitude value to your location, and display your
location on a Google map for your review before your registration is
complete. Please note: You must provide a
physical street address. Post Office Boxes (
If you do not know your physical address, contact your local US Post Office or
email the WeatherCall Customer Care
Team for help info@weathercall.net.
As soon as you approve the Google map, your registration is complete. Yo
ur storm warning service
begins immediately.
For each location, subscribers
may register up to 3 telephone numbers and 3 email addresses. When severe weather is approaching the
registered location, the system will call all the telephone numbers
simultaneously, delivering Gary Bruce's warning message, and send a message to
all registered email addresses with a graphical depiction of the warning area
displayed on a localized, interactive Google map which you can zoom in and out
on, and actually SEE where you are in comparison to the warning area.
TORNADO WARNING map for the
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Cost of Service:
The First Warn Weather Call service costs $6 per year, per address. With that $6 you get a choice of 3 phone numbers, email addresses, or a combination of the two. Once you approach the end of your year of membership, you will be notified by email so that you can renew. We encourage credit/debit cards to expedite the payment process. However, if you need to pay using a checking account, you may use PayPal by following the instructions below.
Paying electronically with a checking account:
If you don’t use credit or debit cards, you can pay for the service directly from your checking account through PayPal. Visit www.paypal.com and set up a SECURE personal account to pay for the service using an e-check. Have the payment sent to info@weathercall.net
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