- Monitors U.S. Emergency All Hazards, and Emergency Alert System (EAS) weather bulletins, warnings, and forecasts - Receives all National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) reports, which provide all available emergency advisories on tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, floods, evacuations, civil danger warnings, and more - Flexible programming—select Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) state or county codes to receive - broadcast from up to six different areas - Audio alarm sounds and visual alert signals shows when alerts are issued - Four levels of messages: Statement, Watch, Warning, and Test - Non-volatile memory function saves settings in the event of power loss
