[EAS] ipawsnonweather question

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Dave Turnmire wrote:
> Ipawsnonweather sometimes "categorizes" alerts... but often it doesn't.? Is 
> that a manual process?? I can't see a difference between the say... RMTs... 
> that are categorized as RMT and those that aren't.

ipawsnonweather is maintained as a hobby (he is a professional, but in his 
spare time, so I'll say hobby). So can't complain about a freebie from 
someone in his spare time.  FEMA should have a supported public website, 
much like NY-Alerts does for its state/local CAP.

Back to the question.  It seems to be a parsing quirk in the 
ipawsnonweather software code. It seems to happen more with alerts created 
by certain alert origination software. Its not related to anytime of day 
or night (no human sleep cycle catagorizing the alerts).  Still valid XML, 
but I'm guessing.

What's more confusing its the BLOCKCHANNEL on IPAWS messages is making it 
even more difficult to figure out what happened on different alerts.