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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 3816 (Introduced in House) — To improve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s weather research, support improvements in weather fo... · Sec. 401

Sec. 401. Definitions

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In this title: The term hazardous weather or water events means weather or water events that have a high-risk of loss of life or property, including the following: Severe storms, such as hurricanes and short-fused, small-scale hazardous weather or hydrologic events produced by thunderstorms, including large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, and flash floods. Winter storms, such as freezing or frozen precipitation (including freezing rain, sleet, and snow), or combined effects of freezing or frozen precipitation and strong winds.
Other weather hazards, such as extreme heat or cold, wildfire, drought, dense fog, high winds, and river, coastal, or lakeshore flooding. The term institution of higher education has the meaning given such term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 ). The term NOAA Weather Radio means the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather Radio All Hazards network. The term public cloud means an information technology model in which service providers make computing services, including compute and storage and develop-and-deploy environments and applications, available on-demand to organizations and individuals over the public internet or other means that allows for the widest dissemination of information.
The terms watch and warning , with respect to a hazardous weather or water event, mean products issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, intended for consumption by the general public, to alert the general public to the potential for or presence of such event and to inform action to prevent loss of life or property. The terms watch and warning do not include technical or specialized meteorological or hydrological forecasts, outlooks, or model guidance products.
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