[EAS] Time to make the LP daisy chain an option

[Sean Donelan]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, Richard Rudman wrote:
> The BWWG has had annual face-to-face discussions at the Spring NAB as 
> well as an ongoing email dialog with NOAA NWS Hq. people as a result of 
> identifying the issue. The NWS people we talk to are well aware of the 
> problem. I think they will eventually solve it. You may see in the near 
> future word about an experiment to mitigate the effects of message 
> flooding that were discussed last Spring at our NAB meeting organized by 
> NV SECC Chair Adrienne Abbott.

The National Weather Service has been meeting with stakeholders in all 
industries, as well as emergency managers and asking for public comment as 
required of any federal agency.  As you point out, NWS' outreach included 
parts of the EAS community.

NWS is rolling out impact-based flash flood warnings starting September 
16, 2019 on the NOAA Weather Wire.  Impact-based FFW coding will be added 
to CAP (not fed to EAS) and WEA over the next few months.

https://www.weather.gov/media/wrn/FFW-IBW-factsheet.pdf

NWS has not announced changes to SAME (EAS) messages transmitted over NOAA 
Weather Radio for flash flood warnings.