User`s guide

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Scanning
Activate Skywarn by pressing and holding WX/
.
If no frequency is programmed in the last channel,
“Skywarn Freq. is not stored.” appears and the scanner
sounds an error tone.
The scanner has 10 channels for Skywarn (Bank
19 channels 40-49). Press T or S to select other
Skywarn channels. Press MAN/MENU to exit
Skywarn.
About Skywarn
Listen to Skywarn to hear trained observers in
your vicinity call in official reports to a net control
station which relays those reports to NOAA and
other emergency agencies. A Skywarn group
exists in virtually every US County with a significant
population. During inclement weather, reports
made by Skywarn observers include information
about:
• Pea-sized and larger hail
• Wind and wind gusts of 40 MPH and greater
• Heavy rainfall
• Lightning (cloud-to-cloud and especially
cloud-to-ground)
• Wall clouds seen in severe thunderstorms
(which spawn tornadoes)
• Severe lowering of a wall cloud
• Turbulence in a wall cloud
• Funnel clouds