[EAS] NWS OOOPS

[Barry Mishkind]

At 07:32 AM 3/5/2014, Mike McCarthy wrote:
>I'm not sure where that came come. I can't speak to an uproar either. In 
>Illinois/Indiana, the SECC in either state had nothing to do with the 
>error.This occurrence was a NWS fopa.

        This is unclear at the moment. I've
        asked someone who said he called the NWS
        and was told "it wasn't us" to go back to
        the stations and get a log entry/tape.
        
        Without that *everyone* is guessing.

        The NC issue appears to be due to
        the spreading of the DMA across state lines.
        (I have written in the past regarding 
        the issues of tests and alerts "leaking." I 
        am very much in the interior of our state,
        and fortunately do not have to worry
        about that.) But ... it would seem that in
        17 years, local folks should have been able
        to deal with such issues - including proper
        notification of border area stations that could
        be affected. The NC station claims there was
        no notification. Are we to say the SC groups
        did not know - after all this time - that some
        of their alerts propagated to NC?

        This is why I advocated - and I even told the
        FCC - that before a National EAS test that 
        will do more than show broken links, the
        states should endeavor to ensure their system
        works end to end.