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Publishing an alert edition

Moments · A National Weather Service alert: the counties drawn, the text as issued, the people under it. Your call - less than the warning suggests, as it says, or worse - and where the worst of it lands. Locks when the alert expires.

Your edition

The call

Less than warnedAs warnedWorse than warned

Peak window and hardest hit

4 PM to 9 PM, the north half

Your note

The training band sets up over the north half after 4 PM; the south stays mostly dry.
The alert edition form, drawn. Today it opens with Heat Advisory, Alabama - today's biggest. Locks when the alert expires.

What opens

Every alert on the warnings page has a "Publish your edition" link. The form opens with the alert as the National Weather Service issued it: the event, the area drawn on its counties, the full text, when it expires, and how many people are under it.

What you add, in order

  • The call - less than the warning suggests, as the warning says, or worse than the warning suggests. Three buttons.
  • Peak window - optional. The hours you expect the worst of it.
  • Hardest hit - optional. Which part of the area: the north half, the coast, a county.
  • Your note - the mechanism. "The training band sets up over the north half after 4 PM; the south of the watch stays mostly dry."

    • When it locks

    When the alert expires. If the Weather Service extends or reissues it, that is a new alert with its own form.

    The mark

    Against the alert as issued: agrees, stronger (worse), softer (less), differs.

    Where it appears

    On the alert's page beneath the area map, for the people under it; on your page; in your followers' email. The share image is the area on its counties.

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