[EAS] AR, MO, KS Tornado alert that wasn't

[Roy Baum]

This was our annual coordinated statewide test, in conjunction with severe weather awareness week. The local media was all over it, and the NWS typically gets permission to do a "live code" test (it was sent as a TOR here in Kansas). Here in Topeka, it went out via NOAA Weather Radio and WEA, and some of the local radio/TV stations relayed the EAS. I did not see it come through on iPAWS.

Roy Baum
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On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 1:37 PM Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com> wrote:
>It would appear someone at the NWS issued a "test" this morning that was essentially a live WEA alert. This newspaper report notes that cell phones rang ... Not certain about EAS at this moment.

>https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/02/tornado-warning-false-alarm-cell-phones/

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