{"id":540,"date":"2012-05-19T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T13:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2014-09-20T20:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T20:32:38","slug":"criteria-for-a-tropical-storm-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/weather-glossary\/criteria-for-a-tropical-storm-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Criteria For a Tropical Storm Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T<a href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tropical-storm-hanna-1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-547 alignleft\" title=\"Tropical Storm Warning Image\" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tropical-storm-hanna-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical Storm Warning Image\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\" \/ rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a>he National Weather Service (NWS) is the official U.S. government agency charged with issuing weather watches, warnings, and advisories and is the source used by <a title=\"signup to receive severe weather alerts by text message or email\" href=\"http:\/\/iAlert.com\/signup.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">iAlert.com<\/a>. Below is the criteria used by NWS forecasters when issuing a tropical storm watch or tropical storm warning for the affected coastline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TROPICAL STORM WATCH<\/strong>: means tropical storm conditions of 39-73 mph (34-63 kts or 63-118 kph) are <em>possible<\/em> within 36 hours for affected coastline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TROPICAL STORM WARNING<\/strong>:\u00a0 means tropical storm conditions of 39-73 mph (34-63 kts or 63-118 kph) are <em>expected<\/em> for defined coastal area within 24 hours or less.<\/p>\n<p>A tropical storm is less powerful than a hurricane. <a title=\"Criteria for a hurricane warning image\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/criteria-for-a-hurricane-warning\" rel=\"nofollow\">Criteria for Hurricane Warning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the <a title=\"Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/saffir-simpson-hurricane-wind-scale\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/criteria-for-a-tornado-warning\" rel=\"nofollow\">criteria for a tornado warning<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/criteria-for-a-severe-thunderstorm-warning\" rel=\"nofollow\">criteria of a severe thunderstorm warning<\/a>, or <strong><a title=\"Weather Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-glossary\/glossary-of-weather-terms\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">weather glossary<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service (NWS) is the official U.S. government agency charged with issuing weather watches, warnings, and advisories and is the source used by iAlert.com. Below is the criteria used by NWS forecasters when issuing a tropical storm watch or tropical storm &hellip;<span class=\"more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/weather-glossary\/criteria-for-a-tropical-storm-warning\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[200,201,386,117,97,199,68,398,121],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-glossary","tag-coastal-area","tag-coastline","tag-glossary","tag-national-weather-service","tag-tropical","tag-tropical-storm-conditions","tag-tropical-storm-watch","tag-weather-glossary-2","tag-weather-watches"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}