[EAS] National Weather Service Message Flooding

[Mike McCarthy]

Couple things.

NWS TX"s are not controlled by multiple WFO's.  However any given TX's 
coverage may spread across counties serviced by mutliple WFO's. The feed 
to a TX orignates from a single WFO however. Also, no counties are 
shared across WFO's best I'm aware. So any given county's message will 
originate from a single WFO. Even the really big ones.

I feel the issue of not knowing whether I'm located in a given county 
when warnings are issued while  travelling.  If I feel uncomfortable (I 
am quite geo-aware when I travel), image the rest of the non-technical 
public when they're out an about and hear a tornado or flash flood 
warning being issued.

MM

On 9/29/2013 8:44 PM, Jake. Wi. wrote:
> On the silo coment yes there maybe silos at a local/state level but the way I view it there are not any silos at the federal level they have simply said whose is in charge of originating weather and civil messages.
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> And as I've seen said on this list that some of the message flooding is due to multiple WFOs in charge of a WXR transmiter than that is a NWS structural issue as their should'nt be multiple WFOs controling a transmiter
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> About some of Johns comments on peoples location awarness, this is NOT an issue that can or should be address through the EAS, this is a serious CULTURAL issue. There are plenty of means through which people can be self aware of the location be it GPS or good old fashion maps!
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