1. A system for providing weather event notifications, comprising: memory for storing contact identifiers that identify a plurality of remote units; and logic configured to make a determination as to whether one of said contact identifiers identifies at least one of said remote units that is located within a geographic region of an impending weather event, said logic further configured to transmit, if said logic determines in said determination that said one contact identifier identifies a remote unit located within said geographic region, a signal to the at least one remote unit based on said one contact identifier thereby enabling the at least one remote unit to notify a user within said geographic region of said impending weather event.