[EAS] Hawaii - mandatory evacuation - was there EAS triggered?

[Al Kenyon]

I actively recommend that alerting authorities avoid using the Event Code
EVI  because the required video display text will lead off with: "A Civil
Authority has issued an Evacuation Immediate for Hawaii County effective..."
That looks a lot like "Everyone off the Big Island, now!" 

How is that scary,  misleading text display more helpful than "A Civil
Authority has issued a Civil Emergency  Message for Hawaii County
effective..."?

EVI describes a recommended action without inherently providing sufficient,
specific information. Sure additional information can be included in the
audio payload IF a viewer hears the audio message. I'm planning to recommend
that the Commission consider removing the requirement for video service
providers to display EAS header based text if alerting authority generated
message text is available. That way the visual message display and audio
message can contain the exact same information.

Al

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Ed Czarnecki

All relevant questions for an after-action report.   Why no EVI?  Why two
CDW messages, followed by a CEM?  Why was the EAS CEM message sent 9 or more
hours after the first CDW as a WES?  Not second-guessing the local emergency
manager, just posing questions I hope they address in an AAR.