Weather Warnings and Emergency Warnings
If an emergency warning related to severe weather (heavy rain, strong wind, storm surges, high waves, blizzard, or heavy snow) or to major tsunami or volcanic eruptions is issued, that information is shown on the car navigation screen. Touching the information shown on the screen allows the user to access more detailed information (up to 127 characters in length).
* This information is based on data provided by the Meteorological Agency.
Information that can be received by conventional VICS car navigation systems
Weather warnings, emergency weather warnings (textual information), and tsunami warnings (pop-up information) will be shown.
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Weather warnings
blizzard warning, heavy rain warning, flood warning, storm warning, heavy snow warning, high wave warning, storm surge warning
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Emergency weather warnings
emergency blizzard warning, emergency heavy rain warning, emergency storm warning, emergency heavy snow warning, emergency high wave warning, emergency storm surge warning
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Other
major tsunami warning
Information that can be received by VICS WIDE-compatible car navigation systems
All emergency warnings with the exception of earthquakes are shown as pop-up information.
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Weather warnings
blizzard warning, heavy rain warning, flood warning, storm warning, heavy snow warning, high wave warning, storm surge warning
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Emergency weather warnings
emergency blizzard warning, emergency heavy rain warning, emergency storm warning, emergency heavy snow warning, emergency high wave warning, emergency storm surge warning
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Other
major tsunami warning, volcano eruption warning