[EAS] NWS OOOPS

[Mike McCarthy]

I just hung up with the Chicago NWS.  The message did not originate at
either of the three WFO's impacted (Chicago, Indianapolis, North Webster).
The times listed in the log are all three hours earlier than the planned
Illinois test time of 11:05AM CST (1705Z).

Here are the entries from my station's EAS box which doesn't monitor the NWS:

Duplicate 	03/04/14 08:05:16 Tornado Warning, Received on Monitor 2.
The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning for Lake, IN,
Porter, IN, La Porte, IN, Newton, IN, Pulaski, IN, Jasper, IN, Starke, IN,
Benton, IN, and White, IN beginning at 8:00 am Tue Mar 4 and ending at
9:00 am Tue Mar 4 (WNSN_FM)

Duplicate 	03/04/14 08:02:23 Tornado Warning, Received on Monitor 6.
The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning for Lake, IN,
Porter, IN, La Porte, IN, Newton, IN, Pulaski, IN, Jasper, IN, Starke, IN,
Benton, IN, and White, IN beginning at 8:00 am Tue Mar 4 and ending at
9:00 am Tue Mar 4 (EMNETWX)

Received 	03/04/14 08:02:23 Tornado Warning, Matched filter OTHERS,
Received on Monitor 3. Log Only. The National Weather Service has issued a
Tornado Warning for Lake, IN, Porter, IN, La Porte, IN, Newton, IN,
Pulaski, IN, Jasper, IN, Starke, IN, Benton, IN, and White, IN beginning
at 8:00 am Tue Mar 4 and ending at 9:00 am Tue Mar 4 (EMNETWX)

End log.

I have a message into the engineer of the LP-1 for NW Indiana to see what
he received directly from the NWS or anyone else. I'm also e-mailing the
SECC for Indiana who I suspect is being inundated with queries.

I will say based on my log entry this appears to have come from a non-NWS
source who may have "leaked" a closed circuit test much like Illinois IEMA
leaked an EAN test a couple years ago.

So...this is a mystery.

MM

> 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