NOAA's Weather Radio All Hazards Logo

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Request for Use of NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards Logo form

Conditions For Use Of The NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards Logo

NOTE: The NOAA All Hazards Logo/Trademark is intended for specific use on NOAA All Hazards Weather Receivers as well as websites and community outreach that support and advocates the use of NOAA All Hazards Radio. If your needs are more general for supporting and advocating the mission of NOAA and/or the National Weather Service, please visit the website https://www.weather.gov/logorequest to request permission to use the NOAA and/or National Weather Service official trademarks.

NOAA's Weather Radio (NWR) program is one of the many National Weather Service (NWS) operational program offices. NOAA Weather Radio is an integral operational entity of every NWS forecast office.

The name, NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards, represents a network of NWR FM broadcast transmitters, working in conjunction with NWR radio receivers that are capable of receiving weather and/or warning information from NWS Forecast Offices, approved Department of Homeland Security offices responsible for the dissemination of warning information, and those Emergency Operation Centers that have been specifically authorized to disseminate warnings on the NWR operational frequencies. To be called a NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards receiver, the device must possess specific receiver requirements contained in CTA-2009-C. NWR receivers that possess all of the requirements in CTA-2009-C except Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) capabilities, but instead are capable of alerting on the NWR 1050 Hz tone are also considered NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards receivers.

NWR provides 24-hour broadcasts of local weather information and warnings of severe weather specific to each of its broadcast locations. The NWR program also has the distinction of providing warning information for any and ALL HAZARDS that may affect the communities served by local NWR broadcasts, as well as warnings that are disseminated on a state and/or national level. The scope of the all hazard warnings includes both natural and man-made events that would mandate notification and/or advisories to citizens in the broadcast area. State and national warnings also include terrorist activity and/or situations of civil unrest. The warning events mentioned herein are not all inclusive but go to defining the scope of the warning responsibilities of NWR.

The NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo, pictured above, is a graphic with the words "All Hazards" printed in the color red above the acronym "NOAA". NOAA is printed in the color blue and features all capital letters with the front leg on the letter "N" elongated and shaped in the form of a lightning bolt, and the second letter "A" also elongated with a red dot at the apex of the letter "A" and three concentric circles emanating from the dot (in the color red). Centered below the acronym "NOAA" is the product name, "Weather Radio" printed in blue. Centered below the product name, “Weather Radio”, is the agency name, "NOAA's National Weather Service" which is over-lined and underlined with a horizontal line, all in the color blue. The Registered Trade Mark symbol, ®, immediately follows and is on the same plane and color as the bottom horizontal line. The logo is set on a white background.

The official colors for NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo are:

• Pantone 200 CVU (red)
• Pantone Reflex blue
• The logo is set on a white background.

 

Procedures for requesting use of the NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo

A. Use of the NWR logo must be specifically authorized in writing by the NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) Program Office. Requests for authorization to use the NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo should be submitted to the NWR Program Office via the Application for Use of NWR Image. The application is available on the NWR web site at Request for Use of NWR Logo.pdf. Applications for use of the NWR logo should be submitted via email to the following address: nws.nwr.logorequest@noaa.gov.

Applications for use of the NWR logo that are for other purposes than using the logo on an NWR receiver should include detailed information on how the logo will be used and displayed, and identify how use of the logo will benefit the NWR program and the public.

For requests to use the logo on NWR receivers, the following additional requirements as identified in the steps below also apply.

B. Before an application for use of the NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo can be approved for use on weather radio receivers or devices containing weather radio receiver modules, the person or organization requesting use of the logo must perform the following steps. Only NWR receivers with either Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) or 1050 Hertz tone alerting capability are eligible to apply for use of the NWR logo. NWR receivers which do not include either of these alerting capabilities are not eligible for NWR logo use.

1) The NWR Program Office uses the Consumer Technology Association CTA-2009-C “Performance Requirements for Public Alert Receivers” document as a guideline in the evaluation of NWR receiver performance for NWR All Hazards logo use. To be classified as a NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards receiver, the receiver must meet, at a minimum, stringent requirements as specified in the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Standard 2009-C (or current revision). SAME capable receivers are required to meet all CTA-2009-C requirements while receivers which alert using the 1050 Hertz tone are required to meet all the CTA-2009-C requirements, with the exception of section 5, which is only pertinent for SAME capable receivers. Visit CTA at www.CTA.tech.

Requesters are also required to submit CTA-2009-C testing results to the NWR Program Office, along with their logo application. The following documents provide further definition on the specific types of CTA-2009-C test data the NWR Program Office requires for SAME alerting and Tone (1050 Hz) alerting NWR receivers:

SAME Alert Receivers - CTA-2009-C Test Data Requirements

Tone Alert Receivers - CTA-2009-C Test Data Requirements

The NWR program office is not a testing facility, nor is it a certification laboratory. Required receiver testing must be accomplished either by the receiver manufacturer, or by an independent test or certification facility. The NWR Program Office is unable to provide recommendations on where requestors can get their NWR receivers tested.

2) The requester is also required to submit a minimum of two production representative samples of the NWR receivers, along with user's manuals, to the NWR Program Office for review and evaluation. The NWR Program Office review will include a basic reliability, feature, and function evaluation, along with a determination of user friendliness, all from a consumer's perspective. Receivers submitted for evaluation to NWS will not be returned. The NWR Program Office will provide a shipping address for the sample receivers after initial receipt of the logo use application.

3) When the NWR Program Office completes its review of the receivers and test data, the requester will be contacted and advised if NWR logo usage will be authorized for the specific receiver(s).

Receivers that meet the minimum standards during the NWS evaluation will be recommended for use of the logo. Camera-ready artwork of the logo will be sent to the requester, specifying the conditions for usage of the logo. Receivers that do not meet minimum requirements will cause a letter to be sent to the requester indicating use of the logo is not authorized and the basis of that decision.

Any claims by consumers against the receiver, to include operational characteristics, quality, standards, and/or features must be addressed by the manufacturer. NWR and the National Weather Service will not hold harmless any receiver manufacturer for the operations or features of their product.

C. Applications and approvals for use of the NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo are model specific. A separate application must be submitted for each model of receiver being evaluated. If a weather radio receiver is authorized to display the NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo and that receiver is subsequently modified, updated, or enhanced, then a new application must be submitted, along with two samples of the modified receiver and updated CTA-2009-C testing results.

Once a brand and model weather band receiver has been authorized to use the NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo, thereby classifying it as a NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards receiver, subsequent distribution by a commercial re-seller does not alter the classification as a NWR All Hazards receiver, provided that the receiver has not been altered.

D. The size and color of the logo may be changed to contrast with equipment or packaging background colors. However, the logo design must not be altered in any way. The NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo may not be used with or in conjunction with any phrase, slogan, comment, endorsement, advertisement, or promotion, unless specifically authorized in writing by the Director of NOAA's National Weather Service.

There is a difference in the logos used for weather alert receivers. The two logos depicted at the end of this bulletin represent the current logos approved for NOAA Weather Radio Receivers. Each of the logos is different in their definition, as well as the organization sponsoring them. Each logo depicted may, upon receipt of written authorization from the respective controlling organization, be displayed alone or in combination with any of the other logos. It is important to know that each of the logos depicted, in addition to being sponsored by different organizations, is referred to by different names. The NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards logo, represented by the words "All Hazards" above the letters "NOAA", is a registered trade mark of the National Weather Service, and use of this Logo can only be granted through the NOAA Weather Radio Program Office at the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Public Alert logo, represented by the words "Public Alert", is a registered trade mark of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), and only the CTA can authorize use of the Public Alert logo.

Compliance with all sections of CTA-2009-C would classify a weather band receiver as a Public Alert receiver. Public Alert receivers are authorized to display the Public Alert logo, after official certification and adherence to licensing requirements from CTA. An alerting weather band receiver may display both the NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards and the Public Alert logos, if logo requirements from both NOAA’s National Weather Service and CTA are met.

To obtain information for use of the Public Alert logo, contact the Consumer Technology Association, Technology & Standards Department, 2500 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201.