3.3K views · 47 reactions | The National Weather Service (NWS) pushes out alerts to an Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) to sound alarms and warnings during major weather events. The critical service alerts are then pushed to commercial wireless carriers and broadcast to televisions and cell phones across the nation. Matthew Cappucci, a meteorologist at MyRadar, breaks down what some of the major weather alerts are and what they mean. | PBS NewsHour | Facebook

The National Weather Service reports that a storm system will bring the potential for severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and tornadoes to the Gulf Coast Tuesday, February 23, 2016, into Tuesday night, and across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region Wednesday into Wednesday night. This storm will also produce heavy rain from the Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic. This global winds visualization for February 23rd through the 24th shows the system's predicted path as it moves in a north