[EAS] National Weather Service Message Flooding

[Eric Adler]

I don't believe that the long-term solution to "message flooding" is a major change in NWS alerting policies.  

>From what I understand, NOAA's current policy is to alert based upon the storm/event and create bounding boxes as it moves and issue the alert for those bounding boxes.  This may create multiple activations of SIMILAR (not identical even though the message text may be) warnings for the same FIPS during large and complex storms/events.  They could move to FIPS based warning on the NWS side but that reduces the usefulness of more advanced and hypertargeted technologies like WEA (nee CMAS).  

I believe some other viable options for reducing "message flooding" are: (1) Advanced filtering in encoder/decoder boxes at relays so that a relaying station can make rules on how many XYZ alerts for FIPS ###### will be relayed in n minutes (or similar or even more advanced); (2) Similar filtering for FIPS but have this take place at the NWS side (for broadcast and broadcast-feeds only) so that those crafting the warnings can decide if they want to merge multiple alerts to be succinct or keep them separate to best warn the public; (3) a rethinking of the method with which we deliver alerts to the 'end user'; (4) a combination of the above.  Surely there are other viable options and I'd love to hear them. 

- Eric