[EAS] NWS Alerts and messaging

[Bill Ruck]

Barry,

You have stumbled across a continuing problem of One Size Fits All.

Weather, along with other features of Mother Nature, does not respect 
boundaries.  And since counties and states have what could be called 
arbitrary and somewhat capricious boundaries a weather event might touch 
a corner of a county and be completely unknown in the rest of that 
county but any warning system based on a county name must trigger 
warnings to the entire county.

Combined with different weather reporting boundaries, which are 
different and again somewhat arbitrary boundaries, makes perfectly 
automating this near impossible.

While I am not a fan of our EAS system we also should not let 
"Perfection become the enemy of good".

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco

On 7/13/2021 12:21 PM, Barry Mishkind wrote:
> I just wanted to let you all know that today I had a very good conversation with folks from the NOAA NWR both Federal and local, and found them to be concerned and definitely willing to listen.
> . . .