[EAS] NWS starts sending WEA for destructive thunderstorms next week

[Suzanne Goucher]

Spot on, Dave.  EAS and WEA should be reserved for sudden, unforeseen, or unpredictable events, the nature of which preclude advance warning.  We can see thunderstorms coming two or three days out.   I had a battle royal with our local Weather Service folks some years ago when we decided to make t'storm alerts optional, not mandatory, in our state EAS plan.  Now, the Weather Service folks are complaining about all the complaint calls they get when our major cable operator, which apparently has a corporate policy of carrying t'storm warnings, locks folks' cable boxes with alert after alert after alert, as a storm cell moves through various counties.

Suzanne Goucher
Maine Association of Broadcasters

> On Jul 23, 2021, at 10:16 AM, Dave Kline <dklinefmtv at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thunderstorms, in and of themselves, are not the concern. Rather it is the other weather events that may (or may not) be triggered. 
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