[EAS] concerning the request for new weather Event Codes

[Mike McCarthy]

They still issues both watches. Awareness of the watches has never been
greater...which is a good thing.

Message flooding of warnings is the problem which there needs to be a
balance. The root problem is the use of timed polygons. It is not uncommon
for the same county to have multiple warnings for the same storm simply
because the projected polygon time doesn't cover a whole county.

Particularly on SVR's and FFW's which are broad swath warnings covering
only a portion of a given county. If a whole county is going to be
impacted, then issue the warning for the whole county once. No two...or
even three times.

Or in the case of tornadoes, multiple spotted and/or radar indicated
tornadoes are warned in different parts of the county and/or times.  A
couple years ago, Kankakee County here had 4 concurrent TOR's in progress
in a county less than 750 square miles.  That evening saw one of our
stations issue 6 TOR's in a span of only a couple hours and upwards of 10
the whole event.

MM

On Wed, June 22, 2016 4:35 pm, Tim Stoffel wrote:
>

> It used to be in the olden days, they would issue a severe thunderstorm
> watch for an area, and then warnings for specific areas. This was in the
> pre-internet days, when you would learn of this via radio and TV. I think
> they still issue tornado watches, but you don't (at least not here) hear