[EAS] Overlap/monitoring issue

[Rod Zeigler]

Adrienne asked how we in "Tornado Alley" deal with the constant alerts 
during a moving weather event.
The answer to that is wholly dependent on the station itself.
Some only do RWT's, RMT's, and EAN's, as minimally required, and pay no 
attention to any other alerts, ever. The hits keep playing as the town 
blows away.
Some do TOR's as well as FFW's, SVR's and others. Some do not only the 
warnings but the watches too and are rather busy retransmitting alerts 
for hours.
Others (like KRVN) retransmit NO alerts via EAS as our mission, and 
reason for coming into being, was to give the listener/owners up to the 
second weather reports.
Our airstaff is in constant backdoor contact with NWS and many times 
gets the information out before the EAS starts.
So, to condense the above. There is no set way anyone in tornado alley 
does anything. It is all up to the station.
I will also say that the State EAS Plan in Nebraska requires that the 
local NWS Wx. Radio be one of the monitored stations, so we are not 
dependent on daisy chaining weather alerts.
Rod

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R. V. Zeigler, Dir. of Eng.
Nebraska Rural Radio Assn.
KRVN-KTIC-KNEB