[EAS] Yesterday's CAP RWT

[Mike McCarthy]

My comments on the watches are interspersed.

MM

On 10/14/2012 2:50 PM, David Turnmire wrote:
> On 10/14/2012 8:52 AM, Mike McCarthy wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> Best practices would recommend stations only forward what they believe
>> are relevant to their listeners and per the state and any local plan. No
>> more.  Doing so only creates clutter and increases the "cry wolf" effect.
>>
> Not as a practical matter.  The fact that an Idaho station's box is
> configured to forward a Hurricane or Tsunami warning doesn't add to the
> clutter... we aren't going to get one of those anyway.  Likewise with
> ADR, NIC, NPT, and NMN (at least so far).  We can even configure our
> boxes to forward weather Watches (as opposed to Warnings), even though
> they are NOT authorized in our state plan... and there will still be no
> clutter since our NOAA offices aren't going to originate those anyway
> based upon THEIR policy.  Maybe weather alerts are different in your
> state, but that is how it is here.

What in the world are you referring?  All classic severe weather watches 
are EAS/SAME encoded regardless of location.  I was in Sand Point, Id. 
and later Kalispell and Columbia Falls, Mt. earlier this summer on 
vacation and we had SAME alerted watches at those locations. While 
Columbia Falls (Flathead Co.) is covered by Missoula's WFO, Sand Point 
is covered by the Spokane WFO. They're both under Western Region NWS.  
And more broadly, national NWS policy.  So your comment about NWS not 
sending TOW and SVW's makes no sense Dave.

> Dave
>