Template:PD-USGov-NWS-employee

	This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by the National Weather Service (NWS), including its name from 1870–1970, the United States Weather Bureau (USWB). This includes the sub-branches of the National Weather Service: The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), including its name from 1978–1995, the Climate Analysis Center (CAC) The National Hurricane Center (NHC), including its name from 1950–1965, the Miami Hurricane Warning Office (HWO) The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) & Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) The Storm Prediction Center (SPC), including its name from 1952–1966, the Severe Local Storms Unit (SELS), and its name from 1966–1995, the National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSFC) The Weather Prediction Center (WPC), including its name from 1955–1995, the National Weather Analysis Center, and its name from 1995–2013, the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) As a file created by an employee of the NWS (formerly USWB) in the course of their official duties, whether hosted on weather.gov on an NWS sub-branch website including: cpc.ncep.noaa.gov, nhc.noaa.gov, swpc.noaa.gov, spc.noaa.gov, tsunami.gov, wpc.ncep.noaa.gov on an NWS or sub-branch social media channel (such as Facebook, X or YouTube) elsewhere (for example, an ArcGIS StoryMap on storymaps.arcgis.com) in Monthly Weather Review (MWR) 1873–1973, currently hosted on the American Meteorological Society's website (journals.ametsoc.org) this work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
	Warnings: (Click here to view) Use of the NWS name ("National Weather Service") and/or visual identifier are protected under trademark law and may not be used without permission from the NWS. NWS disclaimer NWS websites host a large number of files created by members of the public or other third parties. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Third parties producing copyrighted works consisting predominantly of the material appearing in NWS webpages must provide notice with such work(s) identifying the NWS material incorporated and stating that such material is not subject to copyright protection.17 U.S.C. § 403 NWS disclaimer Monthly Weather Review was created and published solely by the USWB/NWS until the end of 1973. Starting in 1976, the journal was published, under copyright, by the American Meteorological Society. Between 1974–1975, the journal was published, without a copyright notice, and is still in the public domain under {{PD-US-no-notice}}.

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Used to mark files as being in the public domain because they were prepared by employees of the National Weather Service in the course of their official duties.

The template automatically sets the following categories: PD US NOAA NWS

Usage

{{PD-USGov-NWS-employee}}

Use this template only for files created by employees of the National Weather Service in the course of their official duties. Typical examples include

• weather maps and charts, infographics, radar and satellite images published on weather.gov, on other NWS web content, or on NWS social media channels and which are not attributed to any third party
• photographs published on weather.gov, on other NWS web content, or on NWS social media channels and which are explicitly and directly credited to the NWS or one of its employees

Do not use this tag for

• files on weather.gov, on other NWS web content, or on NWS social media channels that are attributed to any third party (even if the file is released into the public domain)
• files credited to the NWS on third-party websites such as news websites.

Do not assume that a lack of attribution on a NWS website means that a file was created by an NWS employee. NWS websites host a large amount of third party content contributed under a variety of different terms and conditions.

The template takes no parameters.

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Localization

English

This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:PD-USGov-NWS-employee/layout.

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:PD-USGov-NWS-employee/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.