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• Major fires • Missing or overdue aircraft • Search and rescues • Radiation incidents • Nuclear Incidents • Weather watches and warnings • Train derailments 3.10.5 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE The CSWC works alongside the National Weather Service (NWS) to provide weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for California for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. Warnings are provided for flooding, high winds and tornados, severe heat, rain and snow storms and other meteorological and hydrological events. The NWS uses the Common Alert Protocol (CAP), an XML -based information standard, to facilitate emergency information sharing and data exchange across local, state, tribal, national and non-governmental organizations of different professions that provide emergency response and management services. The NWS provides a subscriber -based registry that delivers warnings via email and SMS message. The NWS, in conjunction with other agencies, operates the California, Nevada River Forecast Center (CNRFC). The CNRFC provides river and flood forecasts and warnings for the protection of lives and property for the protection of lives and property. The NWS Weather Radio All Hazards transmitters broadcast on one of seven VHF frequencies from 162.400 MHz to 162.550 MHz frequencies. The Weather Service can also access NAWAS to announce severe weather information. Advisories and emergency warnings for the City are issued out of the San Francisco/Monterey Bay Area Weather Forecast Office located at 21 Grace Hopper Avenue, Stop 5, Monterey, CA 93943-5505; Phone (831) 656-1725. 3.10.6 NATIONAL WARNING SYSTEM (NAWAS) The National Warning System (NAWAS) is a dedicated wire -line system that provides two-way voice communications between the federal warning center, state warning points and local warning points. If the situation ever presents itself, NAWAS is a nationwide system developed to send warnings of impending attack throughout the nation. The system may be activated from two Federal facilities that are staffed 24 hours daily: The National Warning Center (North American Air Defense Command, Colorado Springs) and the Alternate National Warning Center (Olney, Maryland). The California Warning System (CALWAS) is the State portion of NAWAS that extends to communications and dispatch centers throughout the State. Both state and federal circuits are monitored 24 hours a day at the National Warning Center, the alternate point, and each of the local warning points. Circuits then extend to county warning points. Counties not on this system will receive warning through other means (normally over the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS)). 39