[EAS] CEM's coming from NWS in Rapid City

[Ken Waters - National Weather Service]

WFO's can send them upon request of emergency managers.  Each office has a valid PIL for CEM's.  In our case we even have an MOU with one county to transmit them upon request for a major facility.

Ken

On Friday, October 4, 2013, Mike McCarthy wrote:
>Was just looking at the Rapid City WFO page and they have a series of
>CEM's on their page concerning travel in that area. Wonder if they're
>also sending them by NWR.  What concerns me about those CEM's is there
>appears to be one per county.  In a large area consisting of smaller
>sized counties, that would be a lot of messages to pump out.  IIRC,
>CEM's were never part of the NWS's family of PIL's.  These were EAS
>originated message types.

>MM

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Ken Waters
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