[EAS] "improving" EAS?

[Steve Schoon]

Furthermore, if the NWS issues a SVR claiming 60+ MPH winds and damaging hail for your community and it doesn't come to pass, it can effectively be called a FALSE ALERT!  Every attorney in every courtroom in the country will argue it as such.
What about a radar indicated TOR that remained only radar indicated, no evidence of a touchdown?  By definition, it's a funnel cloud until or unless it touches the ground.

Perhaps VOLUNTARY reporting would be a better, non-EAS-dooming approach.  Otherwise, too many broadcasters will not forward weather warnings at all, to avoid being put in the position of having to audit the NWS, et al.

-----Original Message-----

But who am I to say that the missile alert was false?  What about alerts for possible events that then don't happen? are those 'false'?  I'm not an emergency manager.  I don't have access to all of the information that the local EOCs have.  If they issue an alert and then 'cancel' it, is that false?  It was a real alert when they sent it...

- Eric