[EAS] concerning the request for new weather Event Codes

Robertm bcstlists at icloud.com
Thu Jul 7 15:18:07 CDT 2016


While it is important for NWS to issue warnings, I don't think it is appropriate for EAS. There are better methods such as TV crawls and announcements either in newscasts or as a part of DJ chatter. 


> On Jul 7, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Alexander Tardy - NOAA Federal <alexander.tardy at noaa.gov> wrote:
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> It is not uncommon to have 2-7 different (separate) thunderstorms and are impacting individual events in a large county and busy summer day. All of these "events" are likely occurring at a different time of the day. Entirely different scenario would be a winter storm.



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