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Introducing First Alert WeatherCall - a new service that delivers precision
severe storm warnings to your telephone, 24 hours a day!

The counties in the Channel 15 viewing are 650 square miles on the average. Dangerous storms are typically less than 200 square miles. In the past, severe weather warnings were issued for entire counties creating uncertainty as to exactly where the threat actually is.

The National Weather Service now uses a new and much more precise computerized mapping 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 Storm-Based Warning method with robust emergency telephone notification. Using computerized mapping, WeatherCall matches the danger area defined by the National Weather Service with your address. If your address is within the danger area of the weather warning, Chief Meteorologist, Ed Piotrowski will deliver the warning message to the phone numbers you register, and also send you an email if you provide one.

Horry and Columbus County’s 2,071 square miles are under a TORNADO WARNING. The actual warning area is less than 300 square miles. ONLY subscribers inside the NWS warning area (white box on left image, red box on right image) would be called.

Important things to know about First Alert WeatherCall before you sign up:

The service is a very precise storm warning service, which costs only $6.95 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 www.weathercall.net and click on the FAQ’s.
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.
If there is a special update issued by the National Hurricane Center regarding a tropical weather system which could impact the viewing area, you may receive a special notification call, instructing you to turn on Channel 15 for immediate and important information.

Please click on the link below to read the WeatherCall Subscriber Agreement.
You may print a copy for your files.

WeatherCall SUBSCRIBER AGREEMENT

Click here to view the WeatherCall Hold Harmless form

I have read the agreement and want to sign up on line using a credit card:

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP

Already A Member? Access your account:

If you do not use credit cards, you may click on the link below to print a manual registration form. Complete the application and mail with a certified check or money order made out to WeatherCall (we do no accept personal checks, sorry).

Click Here To Print A Manual Registration Form
Click here to manually sign-up for First Alert WeatherCall

Mail Registration Form to:

WeatherCall

P.O. Box 472
Parker, CO 80134

If you need to contact the Customer Service Department, please call:
1-800-260-6695.