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

[Sean Donelan]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, Robert Bunge wrote:
> Perhaps your EAS vendor can provide updates that would allow you to 
> filter for these extreme events.

The 1994 EAS/SAME protocol codes do not include information which would 
enable sub-event filtering.  A human could listen to the audio, but 
the intent of EAS is automated forwarding instead of requiring human 
intervention.

The additional text slugs are included in the weatherwire full text 
products and NWS CAP messages.

>  The science of forecasting (and observing with dual-pole/super res on 
> the WSR-88D radars) has improved greatly over the years allowing 
> forecasters to better understand these  events and when they will be 
> extreme and have a massive impact on the community.  I personally 
> consider NWS adding tags to existing text products to be a bit of a 
> kludge, but I understand their limitations. 
> JMHO.

News stations with full-time broadcast meteorologists on-staff pay for 
commercial weather software systems. Full-time news stations don't use 
EAS, because they have people making decisions.

Non-news broadcast stations don't.