{"id":561,"date":"2012-05-19T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2014-09-20T20:32:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T20:32:36","slug":"criteria-for-a-hurricane-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/weather-glossary\/criteria-for-a-hurricane-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Criteria For a Hurricane Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/no-hurricane-katrina-satimage-20050829_uwisc-cimss.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-566\" title=\"Criteria for a hurricane warning image\" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/no-hurricane-katrina-satimage-20050829_uwisc-cimss-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Criteria for a hurricane warning image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/ rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a>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 <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 hurricane watch or hurricane warning for the affected coastline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HURRICANE WATCH<\/strong>: means hurricane conditions of at least 74 mph (64 kt or 119 kph) are <em>possible<\/em> within 36 hours for affected coastline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HURRICANE WARNING<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0means hurricane conditions of at least 74 mph (64 kt or 119 kph) are <em>expected<\/em> for defined coastal area within 24 hours or less.<\/p>\n<p>A hurricane is more powerful than a tropical. <a title=\"criteria for a tropical storm warning\" href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/criteria-for-a-tropical-storm-warning\" rel=\"nofollow\">Criteria for Tropical Storm<\/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 hurricane watch or hurricane warning for &hellip;<span class=\"more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/weather-glossary\/criteria-for-a-hurricane-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":[200,386,96,202,31,79,97,118,398],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-glossary","tag-coastal-area","tag-glossary","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-conditions","tag-hurricane-warning","tag-hurricane-watch","tag-tropical","tag-watches-warnings","tag-weather-glossary-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}