[EAS] EAS in the County?

[Barry Mishkind]

At 05:15 PM 6/4/2019, Joel Curtis - WCM at NWS Juneau wrote:
>As a Warning Coordination Meteorologist, I have been studying alert messaging the last few years. The most difficult aspect of an alert message is the "Where?" The instantaneous thought by the receiver is "Do they really mean me?". The conditions for "out-of-towners" is an order of magnitude worse. I wish that there was a simple solution to that problem. There are some devices that are more localized such as Wireless Emergency Alerts, but EAS is going to at least have a county FIPS code and SAME. That simply doesn't help when you don't know which county you are in, such as a visitor would not know. 

        Thanks, Joel,
        You make my point. It has seemed to me
        that there are at least two ways to 
        deal with this:
        1. Some (all?) EAS boxes have the ability
        to run an audio cut after an alert. 
        2. While most stations are now filled with
        no one, the NWS (or EM) might consider (even
        knowing the FIPS is county-based) a
        short "25 miles East of Big City." 

        Of course, stations that are "awake" might
        want to do the same.... 

        Something is better than nothing.