[EAS] Disputed alert system gets upgrade after Wine Country fires

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

Hi Bob,

The rules at present still require only county-level targeting, although the carriers report that they've been doing more precise targeting for some time.  Updated rules will be more stringent, but those haven't taken effect yet.  All the approved software I'm aware of supports polygon entry.  

I think the gap is in training and information... alert originators are still being trained (to the extent they're being trained at all) per the FCC regs rather than the actual state-of-the-art.

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From: EAS <eas-bounces at radiolists.net> on behalf of Robert Bunge - NOAA Federal <robert.bunge at noaa.gov>

I was surprised to see a focus that WEA is only the entire county and sub-county couldn't be used until after "eWEA" is in place.

I'm not at NWS anymore, but all the major carriers started to use the NWS polygons years ago, perhaps in 2014.  This was as much for NWS as it was a self-defense reaction on their part as they experienced value at triggering as small as part of their network as possible.

Do the FEMA blessed software solutions allow polygons? Or does it vary from product to product?  I'm wondering if this is the old beat the dead horse training issue at work.

Bob