[EAS] NWS Fun

[Sean Donelan]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2018, Robert Bunge - NOAA Federal wrote:
> WEA 2.0 (or whatever they are going to call it) will change a number of 
> functions/features.  Time will tell!

Hopefully that will also include introspection at the point of 
origination.

Flash Flood Emergency, Tornodo Emergency -- No WEA alert, they are issued 
only as a "statement."

Flash Flood Warnings are issued for a wide-variety of conditions from 
minor expected flooding that occurs in almost every rainstorm to major dam 
breaks.

According to FEMA's presentation at the FCC Webinar
https://www.fcc.gov/files/emergencyalertingpresentation7252018pptx

NOAA Weather WEAs

21,127 FFW
11,221 TOR
369 HUW
302 BZW
258 DSW
70 SVR
61 WSW
23 FLW
1 TSW

It seems like FFW is massively overused for generating WEAs. Maybe NOAA 
needs to re-examine its WEA filters for FFW or split up FFW into major 
and minor flooding conditions.  Especially since FFW seem to get "renewed" 
every 6-hours, day and night, resulting in fresh WEA alerts at 3am for 
several days in a row.