After buying an N.O.A.A. Weather Radio (NWR) with a Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) receiver, you must program your county, parish or independent city or marine area into the radio. Do NOT program your radio for louder or clearer station not designated as a SAME channel. (Transmitter sites) You will not receive alert. Your NWR will then alert you only of weather and other emergencies for the county(s)/ area(s) programmed. NWR receivers without the SAME capability alert for emergencies anywhere within the coverage area of the NWR transmitter, typically several counties, even though the emergency could be well away from the listener.

When the NWS office in Morristown TN broadcasts a warning, watch or non-weather emergency, it also broadcasts a digital SAME code that may be heard as a very brief static burst, depending on the characteristics of the receiver. This SAME code contains the type of message, county(s) affected, and message expiration time.

A programmed NWR SAME receiver will turn on for that message, with the listener hearing the 1050 Hz warning alarm tone as an attention signal, followed by the broadcast message. At the end of the broadcast message, listeners will hear a brief digital end-of-message static burst followed by a resumption of the NWR broadcast cycle. SAME is also used in the Emergency Alert System (EAS).

SAME CODE's List For Morristown Tennessee

The following messages are always alerted on a NWR Transmitter if they apply to any part of its coverage area:

MESSAGE EVENT CODE Tornado Warning: TOR, Severe Thunderstorm Warning: SVR, Flash Flood Warning: FFW, Tornado Watch: TOA, Severe Thunderstorm: Watch SVA, Hurricane Watch: HUA, Hurricane Warning: HUW

National Emergency: EAN 2.

The following messages are sometimes alerted if they apply to the coverage area of the transmitter, depending on the circumstances and the area of the country.

Check with the National Weather Service programming office of the NWR transmitter:

MESSAGE EVENT CODE Flash Flood Watch: FFA, Winter Storm Warning: WSW, High Wind Warning: HWW, Tsunami Watch: TSA ,Tsunami Warning: TSW, River Flood Watch: FLA, River Flood Warning: FLW, Special Marine Warnings: --none-- Local non-weather emergencies CEM

Transmitters programmed by WFO Morristown:

**** NEW TRANSMITTER to help in poor coverage areas****

Chattanooga, TN (WXK-48) at 162.550 MHz serving Bledsoe, Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Marion, Meigs, Monroe, Polk, Rhea, Roane, and Sequatchie counties of southeast TN and Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Gordon, Murray, Walker, and Whitfield counties of northwest GA

Knoxville, TN (WXK-46) at 162.475 MHz serving Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, and Union counties of central east

TN Tri-Cities, TN (WXK-47) at 162.550 MHz serving Carter, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties of northeast TN Lee, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Washington, and Wise counties of southwest VA and Ashe, Avery, Madison, Mitchell, Watauga, and Yancey counties of northwest NC

LaFollette, TN (WNG-732) at 162.450 MHz serving Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Morgan, Scott, and Union counties of the northern Cumberland Plateau

Transmitters programmed by other NWS offices that cover portions of WFO Morristown's County Warning Area:

Harlan, KY (WWG-68) at 162.450 MHz serving Lee and Wise counties of southwest VA Pineville, KY (WWG-62) at 162.525 MHz serving Lee and Wise counties of southwest VA

Pikeville, KY (WWG-69) at 162.400 MHz serving Lee and Wise counties of southwest VA Spencer, TN (WNG-629) at 162.500 MHz serving Bledsoe county of the southern Cumberland Plateau

Blue Ridge, GA (KXI-75) at 162.475 MHz serving Cherokee county of southwest NC and Polk county of southeast TN

Brasstown Bald, GA (KXI-22) at 162.500 MHz serving Clay county of southwest NC Joanna Bald, NC (WWG-82) at 162.525 MHz serving Cherokee and Clay counties of southwest NC

Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) codes for counties in the Morristown, TN N.O.A.A. weather radio listening area

Courtesy of National Weather Service