NOUS41 KWBC 281705
PNSWSH
Public
Information Notice
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
106 PM EDT Thu
Jun 28 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: Warnings Starting to Roll Out on Wireless
Emergency Alerts
Today, the most
critical NWS warnings will begin triggering
Wireless
Emergency Alerts (WEA) on WEA-capable cell phones.
NWS produced Common
Alerting Protocol (CAP) messages are pushed
to the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) Integrated
Public
Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). These messages are
formatted to trigger a WEA broadcast for the following
types
of NWS warnings.
- Tornado
Warnings
- Flash Flood
Warnings
- Hurricane and
Typhoon Warnings
- Extreme Wind
Warnings
- Blizzard and
Ice Storm Warnings
- Dust Storm
Warnings
Through the
summer, the NWS will be working to enable the
triggering of WEA for Tsunami Warnings.
For information
about IPAWS, please visit
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/
Wireless carriers
began rolling out the WEA service across
the nation on April 7, 2012. All major wireless carriers and
hundreds of smaller carriers are taking part in WEA
on a voluntary
basis. To
find out if your phone will get these messages, contact
your wireless carrier or check the link
below:
http://fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/cmas.shtm
For information
about EAS, please visit
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/eas_info.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
Mike.Gerber@noaa.gov
National Public
Information Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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