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PNSWSH
Public
Information Notice Amended
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
125 PM EDT Tue
June 19 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Michael J. Szkil
Chief, Awareness Branch
Performance and Awareness Division
Office of Climate, Water, and Weather
Services
Subject: Amended Date: Wireless Emergency Alerts Rollout
Amended to move
start date to on or shortly after June 27, 2012.
At that time, NWS
will pass through alerts from the Federal
Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) Integrated Public Alert and
Warning
System (IPAWS) to the Commercial Mobile Alert System.
This system is
also known as Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA).
The rollout date
was revised in order to resolve a connectivity
issue between NWS and FEMA.
For information
about IPAWS, please visit
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/
For more
information about WEA and a list of participating
carriers, see
http://fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/cmas.shtm
If you have any
questions or comments about NWS participation in
IPAWS, please
contact:
Mike Gerber
Emerging
Dissemination Technologies Program Lead
NOAA/National
Weather Service
Office of
Climate, Water, and Weather Services
Silver Spring, MD
301-713-0090 x170
National Public
Information Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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