[EAS] Texas EAS Message 'Flooding'

[Mike McCarthy]

Years ago before EAS (WSR-88D, and polygons), I was at a station which was
the CPCS-1 for the region (10 counties). The NWS had their TX on our
tower, but was not on our generator.  We worked a deal where we would
bridge the incoming phone line and decode alerts for relay on the 6
counties they covered when they went down.

The station had a policy at the time of each SVR, TOR and FFW getting EBS
tones and live read warning for downstream stations. The NWR and AP wire
were very close in timing. But just in case, we had doughnut scripts for
each warning type.

After a while, and more than a few events where no less than 10 EBS blasts
went out, it was decided that only the more rare TOR's and FFW would get a
per-message blast and SVR's would get one to warn everyone severe WX was
in the area. The station would still read the SVR's, but not run the EBS.

It worked well for the balance of my time there.

TOR's (and FFW's) are now a tougher call with the present day event
polygons and possible multiple concurrent events for the same county(ies).

MM

On Thu, August 31, 2017 8:04 am, Dave Kline wrote:
> I imagine that was because there was a never ending series of tornados
> associated with this storm. Of course the first time some station doesn't
> carry an alert and some big wig loses his dog Toto to a tornado, there
> will be hell to pay.
>
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