Introducing First Coast News WeatherCall - a new service that delivers precision severe storm warnings to your telephone, 24 hours a day.
Many counties in the First Coast News viewing area are several hundred square miles. Dangerous storms are often less than 100 square miles. In the past, severe weather warnings were issued for entire counties creating uncertainty as to exactly where the threat really is. The National Weather Service now uses a new and much more precise method to define a warning area called STORM-BASED WARNINGS that reduces the size of a warning area by an average of 75%.
WeatherCall combines this new method to determine a warning
area with robust emergency telephone notification. Using computerized
mapping, WeatherCall matches the danger area defined by the
National Weather Service with your exact street address. If
your address is within the danger area of the weather warning,
Chief Meteorologist Tim Deegan will deliver the warning message
to the phone numbers you register, and also send you an email
if you provide one.
The First Coast News WeatherCall service is a very precise storm warning service, which costs only $6.95 dollars per year to subscribe to. When you register, your home or business will be assigned a latitude/longitude value which is stored in the WeatherCall computers, along with your telephone numbers and email addresses (if you have them).
-- You may register up to 3 telephone numbers and 3 email addresses for each location.
-- You may register land line or cell phone numbers.
-- You may have the warning sent to a digital cell phone via SMS text messaging. For instructions, visit the
weathercall.net FAQs.
-- You MUST provide a PHYSICAL STREET ADDRESS. Our system cannot locate Post Office Boxes, Mail Stops, Rural Routes, etc.
-- Tornado warnings are mandatory.
-- You may choose to also receive Severe Thunderstorm phone calls and/or emails, and Flash Flood warnings via email and SMS text messaging.
-- Please click on the link below to read the WeatherCall Subscriber Agreement. You may print a copy for your files.
