[EAS] NWS Alerts and messaging

[Barry Mishkind]

At 01:19 PM 7/13/2021, Bill Ruck wrote:
>You have stumbled across a continuing problem of One Size Fits All.

        That is true of EAS as well as many other things!

>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.

        The Partial County Activation system,
        as described by the NWS
         https://youtu.be/dR_6NLfPUZc
        is an improvement, but
        we still get dinged with some
        of these where a third county is
        just barely touched.
         https://www.thebdr.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/nws.jpg

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

        THey are making progress, and I"m told
        the newer software would allow the
        picture just noted to be trimmed so
        only two areas were notified.