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The NWS Office of Services produces outreach materials to help you prepare for weather emergencies. Many publications are ONLY available online, no printed copies are available. These publications say DOWNLOAD. You can order printed copies of SOME of the publications from your local NWS Office, the NOAA Education Outreach Center, or the American Red Cross. There is no charge for any of the publications. You need a free copy of Abobe reader to view pdf files.

Aviation
Boating/Marine
Children
Climate
Cooperative Observer Program
Digital Service
Emergency Preparedness
Floods
Heat
Hurricanes

Marine
NOAA Weather Radio
Rip Currents
StormReady
Storm Spotters
Thunderstorms, Lightning, Tornadoes|
Tsunamis
Winter Storms
Safety and Awareness Links

NOAA PA#	Publication
Aviation
Download 96076	National Aviation Brochure ASOS Guide For Pilots, pdf
Boating/Marine
94058 NA	Safe Boating Weather Tips, pdf Marine Service Charts, pdf
Children
Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download	Billy and Maria Coloring Book, pdf Owlie Skywarn™: Watch Out...Storms Ahead, pdf Owlie Skywarn ™: Tornadoes, pdf Owlie Skywarn ™: Hurricane, pdf Owlie Skywarn ™: Floods, pdf Owlie Skywarn ™: Lightning, pdf Owlie Skywarn ™: Winter Storms, pdf How Do You Make a Weather Satellite, pdf Tommy Tsunami Weather Ranger Bookmark
Climate
Download Download Download Download Download Download Download Download	What is Climate Change? What is Drought? 2 Page Fact Sheet What is Drought?: 3 Page Fact Sheet What is El Nino, La Nina and ENSO?: 2 Page fact sheet What is El Nino, La Nina and ENSO?: 4 Page fact sheet What is the Local 3-Month Temperature Outlook (L3MTO): short What is the Local 3-month Temperature Outlook (L3MTO): long NOAA’s Online Weather Data ( NOWData) Factsheet
Cooperative Observer Program
Download	Cooperative Observer Program flyer/brochure
Digital Services
Download	Digital Services Quadfold Brochure: pdf -- To print: set page scaling to "none," paper to legal) NWS Digital Services Operations Concept: June 2004, pdf
Emergency Preparedness
20053 N/A N/A	StormReady, StormReady Info FEMA's Emergency Preparedness Materials, pdf Red Cross: Talking About Disaster: Guide for Standard Messages, pdf
Floods
200850 200753 200552 200465 200467 Download Download Download Download	Guide to Hydrologic Information on the Web, pdf Flood Preparation and Flood Safety (Flood Insurance) Turn Around Don't Drown™, NWS/NSC version, pdf Tropical Cyclone Flooding: A Deadly Inland Danger Flood...The Awesome Power/NSC version, pdf Red Cross: Preparing for Floods, pdf Red Cross: ¿Está preparado para una inundación o para una inundación súbita? Espanol Food and Water Safety During Hurricanes, Power Outages, and Floods Protección y seguridad del agua y los alimentos en caso de huracán, corte de energía eléctrica e inundaciones
Heat
Download Download Download	Heat Wave: pdf, Heat Wave: text only Red Cross: English Red Cross: ¿Está usted preparado para una ola de calor? Espanol
Hurricanes
94050 96071 200652 Download 200465 Download Download Download Download Download Download	Tropical Cyclones: March 2011, pdf Atlantic Hurricane Tracking Chart: pdf, png Hurricane Safety Flyer: Before, During and After a Hurricane, trifold pdf Hurricane Safety Flyer: Before, During and After a Hurricane, flyer pdf Tropical Cyclone Flooding: A Deadly Inland Danger La Seguridad de Tiempo: Los Huracanes, pdf or htm Espanol Hawaiian Hurricane Safety Measures Central Pacific Tracking Chart Atlantic/Pacific Hurricane Names Red Cross Hurricane Safety Checklist, English, Spanish East Pacific Hurricane Tracking Map: 12" x 24"
Marine
Download	Marine Service Charts: Frequencies, schedules and ocations of station dissesmination NWS products
NOAA Weather Radio (NWR)
96053 96070 94062 200352 Download	NWR Decal NWR All Hazards Brochure (NOAA/PA 96070) NWR Stations Quadfold Brochure NWR Poster Map NOAA Weather Radio: Voice of the National Weather Service, or pdf
Rip Currents
200455 200466	Break the Grip of the Rip brochure™: INDD or PDF, Resaca! Escapese De La Resaca™: INDD or PDF Espanol
StormReady Program
Download	StormReady/TsunamiReady Program Flyer, PDF
Thunderstorms, Lightning, and Tornadoes
201051 Download 200252 200461 Download	Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Lightning...Nature's Most Violent Storms: pdf Lightning Safety for You and Your Family Fact About Lightning, pdf color Coaches & Sports Officials Guide to Lightning Safety Red Cross: Preparing for a Tornado Red Cross: Preparación para tornado
Tsunami
200956 200357 Download Download Download Download	Tsunami Zone TsunamiReady: Is Your Community Ready for the Next Tsumani?, pdf Tsunami the Great Waves, pdf About Tsunamis, pdf Tsunami Preparedness Links International Tsunami Information Centre Brochure, pdf Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, pdf

Winter Storms
200160 91003	Winter Storms...The Deceptive Killers, pdf Red Cross: Preparing for a Winter Storm, pdf Red Cross: Preparación para tormenta de inviernoeparacion para
Storm Spotter Materials
Print/Dwnld Print/Dwnld Download Download	Sky Watcher Cloud Poster, jpg, pdf, high resolution Guía De Observaciόn de la Nubes, jpg, pdf, high resolution Citizen Scientist: Cooperative Observer and Spotter Programs, pdf Weather Spotters Guide, pdf Printed copies of Spotter's Guides available only to NWS staff to distribute at training classes.

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