CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — All Tennessee and North Carolina counties in our viewing area will experience a weather radio outage for upgrades starting Tuesday morning, and continuing into Friday.
That comes as some shower activity is in the forecast each day through the end of this week.
Here’s the list of counties in Tennessee affected by this weather radio outage, which is a required system upgrade:
- Bledsoe
- Bradley
- Grundy
- Hamilton
- Marion
- McMinn
- Meigs
- Monroe
- Polk
- Rhea
- Sequatchie
The outage will also affect users in Cherokee and Clay Counties in North Carolina.
The National Weather Service (NWS) says this outage will begin Tuesday at 8 a.m. and end Friday at about 4 p.m., so it can carry out a required, scheduled update to their Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) system.
This outage is a reminder that a weather radio is just one tool in your toolbox for staying better informed about what potential severe weather may be headed our way. Here are some other ways you can stay prepared:…