What is EMWIN?
The Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) is a dissemination system used to provide timely dissemination of warnings, watches, graphics, and other hydro meteorological products to emergency managers with minimal equipment cost to them. In the Continental US, EMWIN uses the GOES-East and GOES-West satellite platforms to broadcast the EMWIN data stream. Within the satellite footprint, the EMWIN data stream can be received directly from the satellite using a small receiving dish, an inexpensive receiver and down converter and a PC for data management and display. In many communities, the received satellite broadcast is re-broadcast to local users by the NWS or other public and private agencies as an audio signal on a dedicated VHF or UHF radio frequency. Users receive this rebroadcast EMWIN data stream using an inexpensive radio receiver, a demodulator, and a personal computer. Some users parse the products into components of their interest such as state zones or county w
